Excerpt: If I had had any visions of the past, I had seen only their rose-tinted, sea-freshened faces, beetling brows, capable hands, heard the creaking of their fine ships, smelled the spice and tar and sewage of the wharf and rejoiced in the sturdy ingenuity of their buying and bartering.
Most are made of rich red brick, two or three stories high, and are in the sturdy and unornamented Federal style.
Still, the grape has achieved its greatest fame and expression as mourvèdre, specifically in the sturdy, haunting reds of Bandol and as a major component in the occasional Châteauneuf-du-Pape. Nowadays, when American producers like Tablas Creek and La Clarine Farm make wines from the grape, mourvèdre is their term of choice.
Tomorrow he can put Adam's stuff in the sturdy suitcases and take them to him, put them in the hospital room, lined up by the door so they're there when he's ready to leave.
Mr. Gore, for his part, hopped aboard an old-fashioned paddle boat to head down the Mississippi, indulging in a bit of political theater that wrapped his journey in a populist aura and evoked the sturdy, timeless values of the American heartland.
All these machinations produce a couple of different results: They make an appealing tale about love and death in late 19th-century America, and they flatter the sturdy, homely general by comparison.
They invested enormous hope in the capacity of ordinary people to create bonds of citizenship based on simple ideals — "We the people" — and in a sturdy design to balance self-governance with public trust.
Unable to move forward, Americans glanced back and found consolation in images of the sturdy agrarian past.
In looks and style, Jarrett evokes the sturdy, dependable, amiable manhood of such 50's stars as Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott.
It may be conservative in its respect for older creative traditions, and also in its affection for the sturdy values of community, but it is also unapologetically radical in its antiauthoritarian spirit.
