In your next letter I wish you'd say where you are going and what you are doing; how are the plays and after the plays what other pleasures you're pursuing.... "I want you to be happy and good and loved," she wrote to Methfessel now, mustering good cheer.
Ms. Stewart, stumbling through the forest and racing through an awkward, Shakespeare-lite speech to her hastily mustered good-guy army, understands the job perfectly and undertakes it in good faith.
Lawyers for Mr. Schiavo said Mr. Bush was delaying because he could not muster a good legal defense.
Surely they can muster enough good sense to negotiate a successor agreement more than 15 years after the cold war ended.
So long as the company can muster a good crop of the kind of popular specialty channels that typically trigger expensive bundle sales in traditional cable and satellite packages, though, that omission probably won't be all that troubling to potential buyers – especially given that NBC is still available free OTA in most markets.
Even though the 67-year-old General Kutuzov was not seen by his contemporaries as the equal of Napoleon he possessed the ability to muster a good defense.
Only ancient hardliners like former drug czar William Bennett continue to make the case for intense criminalization; virtually no one can muster a good argument for why locking people up for simple possession of drugs is a useful policy.
"I have nothing against you, Dan," he tells one INS agent in "Imperial," even as he writes that "Here I had better tell you that in all the 10 years it took me to write this book, I never met a single Mexican who could muster up good words for the United States Border Patrol".
The difference is that we know Curly isn't really suffering, but the victims of many prank phone calls do experience real pain, and it's hard to muster a good-natured laugh at the expense of another person's humiliation.
Instead, he did something equally important: He created "a model of political leadership that puts a premium on mustering the good will and energy of its citizens and neighbors".
