If you're trying to duck the reality of football's increasingly un-duckable human cost, or are so cynical as to regard players merely as millionaire would-be felons dealing out brain damage to one another, it helps a lot to see the men on the field as brave gladiators questing after the ultimate, non-monetary prize of a Super Bowl ring.
For five-year-old Pascal Walker it was the rhythmic pizzazz of the tiny tin army, the brave soldier's quest for the romance of his short life and the valiant endurance of a remarkable little fighter that seemed to make their mark.
"We hope that the government is compassionate and brave in its quest to balance affordability in the current economic climate with a fair deal for those forced to pay high care costs".
Some view the posters as "creepy and stalkerish", others see the "romantic and brave" nature of the quest.
Curiously I know many people who have the leadership courage to engage in risky ventures, heroic quests, and brave actions and yet lack the relationship courage to initiate and engage in meaningful conversations with the people who matter most to them - family members, business partners, employees, investors, and others.
Such an effort, properly conceived, would have put millions to work overhauling the nation's infrastructure, rebuilding our ports and transportation facilities to 21st-century standards, establishing a Manhattan Project-like quest for a brave new world of clean energy, and so on.
"He re-established the republic", he wrote,as the first generation of our leaders saw it young, brave, civilised, rational, gay, tough, questing, exultant in the excitement and potentiality of history.
Quest puts up a brave fight but he's shaky.
Arthur spies him doing this and transforms his mysterious actions into a great quest, with Luke Hayseed braving a stinging swarm to satisfy one of Mr. Toppit's dark demands.
A Broadway revival begins previews on Nov. 9, at the Circle in the Square, starring the eighteen-year-old newcomer Hailey Kilgore (above), as a peasant girl who braves the gods and the elements on her quest for love.
