While the men mostly preen, make promises or whine about how those tactics are received, the women juggle more complicated emotions, trying to balance desire and practicality, kindness and self-esteem, anger and forgiveness, hugs and kiss-offs.
Ishido paid tribute to her son's "kindness" and desire to help children in troubled parts of the world.
Takao Ozawa, an assimilated Japanese man, sued for naturalization, in 1917, citing his Christian values, his American education, and his desire to "return the kindness which our Uncle Sam has extended to me".
Takao Ozawa, an assimilated Japanese man, sued for naturalization, in 1917, citing his Christian values, his American education, and his desire to "return the kindness which our Uncle Sam has extended to me". He was denied, because he wasn't Caucasian.
In Sir Thursday, readers are also introduced to the power issues that Arthur begins to struggle with – his natural compassion and desire for fairness and kindness, against the characteristics displayed by other senior denizens and Dame Primus, and the influence of the key.
They have no choice but to be trusting because, with limited understanding, and limited abilities to communicate misunderstanding, they, like Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire, always depend on the kindness of strangers.
The governor of the Bank of England – who is, as it were, doing a sterling job trying to keep the show on the road – recently quoted A Streetcar Named Desire about dependence on "the kindness of strangers".
The warning on the deficit had an echo of a quip by Mark Carney, the Bank's governor, in January 2016 that Britain, like Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, was dependent on the kindness of strangers to fund its appetite for imports.
Other people speak of his unassuming demeanor, his gentle kindness, his endless desire to push life's limits.
It takes love, kindness, respect, a desire to support and build something greater than oneself, the courage to look inward and expand outward, a sense of humor and whole lot of work.
As we have seen with leaders like Richard Branson and the work of Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, an approach called Conscious Capitalism in which the purpose of the business is not just to maximize profits, but also to measure success based on the values of sympathy, empathy, friendship, love and the desire for social approval and kindness.
