I've always believed that poetry exists in part to reveal the soul's capacity for compassion, sacrifice, and endurance.
"Remember to reveal the soul's capacity for compassion, sacrifice, and endurance," she says, and I promise to strive to do this.
His imperfections by no means detract from what he represented as a leader, chief of which was his capacity for personal sacrifice.
His capacity for self-sacrifice enabled him to put aside his own political beliefs in order to achieve the unification of factions into a single socialist party.
Its members are ruthless; they have remarkable organisational skills, a tremendous capacity for self-sacrifice and self-discipline, and a deep hatred of the United States and the Western way of life.
Out on the accidental frontiers of human possibility, the best athletes are produced by a perfect storm of circumstance: rare natural talents; state-of-the-art training; and a deep wash in the murk of psychology, where, perhaps most mysterious of all, ferocious ambition, discipline and capacity for self-sacrifice reside.
If there is no public space for other attributes of humanity, this bleak view will inevitably crowd out our capacity for generosity, selflessness, sacrifice and kindness.
And I demonstrate my capacity for love and sacrifice every time I do a closet purge.
Her goodness, her capacity for willing, even joyful sacrifice — the strength of her love — is a gift to match that possessed by her little brother, "watching something we don't see," his eyes "so full of light".
