His book is an adventure story, made up of descriptions of foreign ports, stormy weather, and attacks by pirates, but it is also an enduring celebration of American fortitude and self-reliance, very much in the tradition of Thoreau's "Walden" and "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin".
In the introduction to the screenplay, which was published in revised form in 1974, Nabokov wrote that "only ragged odds and ends" were used and that he "keenly regretted the waste of my time while admiring Kubrick's fortitude in enduring for six months the evolution and infliction of a useless product".
His wonder-boy demeanor might seem naïve, but he spent almost 20 years opposing a dictator and enduring torture; few doubt his fortitude.
As the national team continues to adjust to a new coördinator, Valeri Liukin — whose own daughter, Nastia, won Beijing's all-around title and, in recent days, has praised fellow-gymnasts for their fortitude — Raisman's enduring presence represents a promise that she will continue, on and off the floor, to hold the sport's American organizers accountable.
Coincidentally — I assume — each of the characters he's played has been a man enduring harrowing circumstances with soft-spoken fortitude.
In his previous works Zhang emulated the mental fortitude that monks seek by enduring extreme physical tests.
I found that with its Viking-esque fortitude and instinct for saga-like plots (not to mention a history of enduring tough weather conditions in the past), there's every reason to believe the society is well on the mend.
Here is a living artist who has faced down serious difficulties — bouncing back after his career stalled in the early 1970s, having assets seized by the I.R.S. and enduring the suicide of a son in the 1990s — with a surprising amount of equanimity and fortitude.
He thought about enduring.
