Add Subaru's four-wheel drive to the equation and you get mean cornering grip, and, to aid in applying that tenacity to the pavement, the WRX has 16-inch, 55-series tires and its wheels are suspended independently with stiffer dampers at all corners.
Since retiring in 2001, Ripken has channeled that tenacity and brand power to build a thriving baseball empire.
The composition of La Tentation de Saint Antoine provides another example of that tenacity in the pursuit of perfection that made Flaubert go back constantly to work on subjects without ever being satisfied with the results.
Some of that tenacity comes through in this 1986 interview in Inc. magazine (where the vomiting stories I heard at SVA are confirmed).
'Win at all costs' and 'gamesmanship' replaced by technique, tenacity and talent in that order".
If one project stands out, it is starring in a one-woman, performance art version of Jesus Christ Superstar Peaches Christ Superstarar – that involved tenacity in securing Andrew Lloyd Webber's agreement, plus the endurance to play all the key roles.
The judges, praising her clear analysis of emotive issues and the strength of her campaigning journalism, said that her "tenacity in standing up for people with mental health problems... shone through in her wide-ranging reporting".
Throw in a defensive tenacity that allows her to play against anybody from point guards to post players and you have someone who has quietly gained recognition from her peers as a premier player.
Mr. Considine, after stressing that all the films were "totally different," allowed that there might be some common ground, not least in the tenacity of these actors turned filmmakers, who come from more or less working-class backgrounds.
Carrie, however, has a libido; Maya's is subsumed in the tenacity of her hunt for the Great White Whale.
"It would get to you," he promises, betraying a certain pride in the tenacity of his creation.
