Many women have, like Astell, found in philosophy a source of joyful challenge and liberation, fascinating in its own terms, with illuminating consequences for life and the social world.
My joyful challenge is to read as much as I write as I finish this book I am working on, pick up my Ph.D. research again, and start the next book.
Add to this the letter from his new teacher chirpily describing second grade as "a wonderful, joyful, exciting challenge," and Billy's anxiety reaches fever pitch.
Rita is a living embodiment of that statement, showing a joyful fearlessness as she tackles new challenges with her trademark moxie and gusto.
Every semester brings with it new horizons, new challenges, difficult family goodbyes and joyful re-acquaintances with colleagues and students.
This isn't utopian-future optimism but a kind of joyful celebration right in the midst of challenging reality.
She took on this challenge with the same intense enthusiasm, joyful sense of humor, and tenacious integrity with which she approached everything in her life.
It gives the country a diverse history, but not necessarily a joyful one, creating a climate where identity was challenged and repressed.
It was a joyful moment of father-daughter communication, the master seeming to challenge her to "now show me what the student has learned".
