It's a vibrant, vital music that from its very roots has always been a burst of colour and excitement against a background of dullness, hardship or frustration.
"It's a vibrant, vital music that from its very roots has always been a burst of color and excitement against a background of dullness, hardship or frustration.
Having a modest background, a knowledge of hardship or a kinship with the so-called common man doesn't correlate with competence.
"I think Jake was probably attracted to Southpaw as a physical transformation and also as: 'OK, here's someone I've never played before, from a certain socio-economic background, a place of hardship and struggle".
"She's a great writer, great comedian and comes from a real urban background where she had a lot of hardship and she's channeling that into a great achievement and a great career," he said.
Yet his background -- though one devoid of that kind of hardship -- is probably a greater basketball anomaly.
"This is causing a double whammy of hardship for our fishermen as the poor market situation is set against the background of ever-increasing operational costs for the fishing fleet".
Not all their talk was of hardship.
The gnarled hands speak of hardship.
There was a lot of hardship here.
