Nobody questioned Rudd's determination even before he put on a display of courage in the 1998 race at Martinsville, Va., that still resounds in Winston Cup circles.
And yet when Ms. Roberts's character tries to humiliate her by forcing her to sing in a karaoke bar, Ms. Diaz turns the tables by gallantly struggling through a few verses, a display of courage and dignity that suddenly makes Ms. Roberts look very small.
Potemkin fought at the capture of Jurja, a display of courage and skill for which he received the Order of St. Anna.
His final weeks were a display of his courage and dignity, and he died peacefully at home surrounded by his close-knit family.
As Ric Burns's epic history of the Twin Towers explains, it took a French wire-walker, Philippe Petit, to humanise the building with a display of virtuoso courage, signalling an upturn in its status – before its "public death" on 11 September 2001.
Soon, Flora has left her despised origins behind, and is rocketing up through the ranks: feeding the Queen's hallowed newborns, tending the darling young grubs; encountering the glorious Maleness of the drones, and even, after a display of savage courage, privileged to attend on the Queen herself.
Forgive me, but wouldn't a real display of courage be a film that portrayed pro-lifers in at least two dimensions?
The democracy uprising in the Arab world has been a spectacular display of courage, dedication, and commitment by popular forces -- coinciding, fortuitously, with a remarkable uprising of tens of thousands in support of working people and democracy in Madison, Wisconsin, and other U.S. cities.
In a statement last week, the union called the strike "an inspiring display of courage and conviction," and after Hostess issued an ultimatum on Thursday, the union released a statement attributing the company's woes to mismanagement rather than its workforce.
This was an atypical display of courage, to talk on such a loaded subject.
Indeed, in an unprecedented display of courage, the press has been mocking one of the topmost brasshats, General Tuncer Kilinc, secretary-general of the NSC.
