Sentence examples for had backbone from inspiring English sources

The music was loose and highly improvised, but the performance had backbone.

"It showed me that Amy had backbone,' he said, "and I found that very attractive".

The exhibition had backbone and the 'tension junkie' in me found extreme solace in Cunningham's careful examinations of context and its relationship to culture and history both for the arts and beyond. .

While the P56S MSP in aqueous solution had no detectable backbone motions on the µs-ms time scale (data not shown), many P56S MSP residues had backbone motions on the µs-ms time scale in the membrane environment.

If outside directors had backbones they'd speak out at board meetings.

"Some people have backbone.

They have backbone.

A real cucumber soup has backbone.

She has backbone and her own brand of modest bravado.

Some people have backbone by the metric ton".

Chief executives need to be able to display that heart while also having backbone.