I read a lot growing up, and in the fierce, without-qualifiers way that one loves things from one's childhood, I love all the Young Adult (YA) series of that time: Little House on the Prairie, Sweet Valley, Baby-Sitters Club, Anne of Green Gables, Nancy Drew.
This is wise, because the debates fought out in this arena are fierce and without winners.
Elsewhere, the debate over that idea has been fierce, and without much agreement on anything to put on the ballot.
The rare accomplishment of the SFJAZZ Collective is that it can contain such fierce talent without succumbing to it.
It's certainly something Olivier and Firth have in common – projecting dour detachment and fierce desire, without improper vanity or superiority.
Himes's career as a writer was not unlike his mother's ambition: fierce, but without real growth — especially when one considers the walls that were knocked down by Baldwin and Wright.
Himes's career as a writer was not unlike his mother's ambition: fierce, but without real growth especially when one considers the walls that were knocked down by Baldwin and Wright.
In a typical bit of wisdom, Wilder is explaining to Crowe how director Ernst Lubitsch solved a story problem Wilder was having in writing the screenplay for "Ninotchka": How would they show Greta Garbo's evolution from hard-core Communist to fierce capitalist without a lot of cumbersome speechifying?
Competition is fierce and without a clear vision of who you are and what you have to offer, you can make yourself go crazy.
I dunno, but I am sure those fuckers will kick you in the face something fierce, with or without steel-toed Docs.
