Sentence examples for immense willpower from inspiring English sources

Others felt grudging respect for her immense willpower.

Fritzi had been a quiet boy, she noted in an unpublished memoir, but: "During these years of war he had become more serious, a man of immense willpower and self-control, with a look intense and determined.

Of his impending divorce, Arvid writes, "But something had happened, nothing hung together anymore, all things had spaces, had distances between them, like satellites, attracted to and pushed away at the same instant, and it would take immense willpower to cross those spaces, those distances, much more than I had available, much more than I had the courage to use".

It doesn't help that her ill fitted wardrobe is incredibly distracting; in one scene, she towel dries her hair so awkwardly it took immense willpower not to run over and hand her a comb.

Former Paralympian skier Chris Waddell is poised to become the world's first paraplegic to scale Mt. Kilimanjaro unassisted, using a customized four-wheel mountain handcycle powered by his arms (and immense willpower).

As I write this — on the couch, beer in hand — only by an immense exercise of willpower am I resisting the urge to turn on the Big 10 Network's "Greatest Games," reruns of football games whose outcomes I already know.

A titan of willpower and energy who had attempted the impossible was suddenly torn away from his sphere of activity; the shock was immense.

But Henin had willpower.

Roy F Baumeister and John Tierney, Willpower (Allen Lane).

Willpower was irrelevant now.

Italy's willpower prevailed.