Sentence examples for it's grit from inspiring English sources

It's grit, determination, passion and the ability to power through — shaped by your individual experiences — that truly matter when you're playing the long game.

It is grit to the delicately modulated story, set in the mid-1930's, of a restless air-spirit — a Luftmensch, as the Germans put it — and the wife and little daughter who live in the Luft's exhaust.

Maybe it was grit or pure presence of mind, maybe it was a career of photographing conflict, all the experience and preparation.

It is grit v glamour – as some unreconstructed males of a certain age might call it – and they would not be far wrong.

Your high school history teacher may have told you that it was grit, pluck and idealism that built the American empire.

It was grit," Duckworth said in a TED talk.

But if it was grit and desolation Gulliver was truly after, did he know that Vancouver is home to the Downtown Eastside, Canada's poorest neighbourhood?

And though, like most insurers, it may not want to add clients in parts of Florida and California, it is gritting its teeth and doing so rather than watch those customers take their business to A.I.G.

For now, and for the sake of my daughter – for many phobias are learned, and I'm determined to do whatever I can to avoid passing it onto her – I'm gritting my teeth and singing 'Incy Wincy Spider' with the rest of them, even if my heart skips a beat at the actions.

No," said George, "What it takes is grit".

(As several people — including, for some reason, former Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Austan Goolsbee — pointed out, no one in the South would refer to "cheesy grits". It's cheese grits. As an authentic eater of grits, both with cheese and without, I am embarrassed to have repeated Romney's mistake).