Busch traces the path each of her protagonists followed from a conventional Western upbringing to the demanding life of a Zen monk — Tassajara's residents rise at 3 50 a.m. and spend at least six hours a day in zazen.
She balanced a demanding career, a secure domestic life and the upbringing of her much-loved daughter Paula at a time when such a balance was anything but usual: women designers everywhere are in her debt.
The president said that in part because of his famously cool temperament — inspired by his upbringing in Hawaii — he has managed to block out voices demanding more immediate actions.
Yamamoto said the Scramble captures the contradiction of modern Japan: Although so many young people seek to stand out in the crowd with the latest, zaniest fashion, their upbringing still demands civility: They may look counterculture, but they're still bound to step back and offer a stranger the right of way.
As the daughter of two artists, Final Portrait helped to explain so much about my upbringing and also my life, my need for perfection -- which I demand strangely of myself and not others so much -- and my parents' damaged existences.
"They had a political upbringing, they had demands put on them from a very early age.
Take a look at his upbringing.
To put a child (usually an only child) into the Chinese sports system is to surrender his upbringing and education to a bureaucracy that demands sporting success at any cost.
It covers her business battles to build the company from scratch with her husband Michael, as well as her own emotional struggles, including balancing the upbringing of her three children with the demands of work, binge-eating and heavy drinking.
The two families shared in the young Bren's upbringing and he has recalled his childhood as "demanding". Bren, who borrowed $10,000 to start a home-building business in 1958, was a successful builder all through the 1960s and '70s.
Sudiro says he drew on his strict military upbringing to lead the workers and press their demands.
