This is a tough, scrappy country, perpetually fighting for survival.
ARIZONA-1: While national Republicans have set their sights on dislodging Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick (D-Ariz)., they may have a tough time doing so in this perpetually swingy, sprawling district.
A police procedural story in which the procedures are totally different from those in the United States can make things tough to follow, and "The Interview" is perpetually in mid-twist.
Swampy also upstages its hometown of Christmas, which draws attention to itself with a perpetually decorated tree and other Yuletide-theme attractions, but has a tough time trumping a 200ft-long alligator.
Russia, meanwhile, will continue to be accommodated as a partner in this effort, on the perpetually untested theory that if Obama ever did decide to get tough with Iran, Moscow would join in.
It didn't take much: "You ate an egg! Mazel tov!" My tough, GI Joe dad with his tools and workbench, perpetually digging under the hood of his Ford pickup, playing racquetball with "the buddies," carting a rifle along when we drove cross-country, was harder to crack.
He borrowed from Oscar Wilde ("A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal") and was perpetually on the lookout for wit that would allow him to feel "tough, cynical, cool, sleek and urbane".
It can be a tough read if you're not familiar with hedging, selling short, demand shock, perpetually selling long on wheat futures, or any of the weird, made-up bullshit that constitutes finance, but the story should be a wakeup call for those of us who take cheap food for granted, aka probably 99.999999% of us.
Recent immigrants for the most part, they perform a tough, lonely duty that few native Americans want to do anymore — even those Americans who are perpetually out of work.
Essie Davis is Vermeer's highly strung, perpetually pregnant wife Catharina; Judy Parfitt is his formidable clay-pipe-smoking mother-in-law Maria Thins, and Joanna Scanlan gives a tough performance as Tanneke, the raw-boned serving woman who is the nearest thing Griet has to a friend.
