What a legacy he leaves to all of us--kindness, warmth and fierce commitment to causes of social justice.
The one character whom Baker sees eye to eye, without veneration or condescension, is the long-suffering, bluff-humored Bobby, who's caught between his duties and his sympathies, and whose tough warmth and fierce sense of protectiveness is balanced by both an awareness of what he's observing and a willful overlooking of it.
Husband Stan and sons Cliff, Doug and Dean, daughters-in-law Linda, Jessica and Gail, grandchildren Harlan, Zach, Sari, Tali, Eli, Josh and Ben, and great-grandson, Oskar miss her warmth, love, laughter and fierce loyalty.
Had my personal favourite Linda Grant won, I was ready to declare it a quiet triumph: a victory for craftsmanship, sharp characterisation, fierce intelligence and above all human warmth.
Mr. Thompson's fierce charisma infuses the commanding Gennady with warmth and genial humor, although he is rather more buoyant and less glowering than the character is in the text.
His warmth — or the evidence of his fierce wish for it — was everywhere, in the books strewn on his desk, or the drawings on the wall, or a sudden call to his wife, Beth.
Like or loathe her, Clinton's fierce ambition combined with her perceived lack of warmth is held against her where the same traits would be regarded as a strength for men.
Despite his gifts for communication, and his personal warmth, Pearce's trenchant arguments and his fierce intellectual integrity frequently got him into controversy.
But beneath the ostensibly reserved manner, fierce intelligence, short-trimmed hair and steel-rimmed spectacles and was a woman of delightful warmth and passion, and when she smiled, the smile lit up her face with a rare radiance.
The young Swedish director has abandoned the feelgood humanist warmth of his first two features, Show Me Love and Together, and this really is uncompromisingly fierce.
