Sentence examples for persistence humor from inspiring English sources

And lastly, persistence, humor, humility.

Learning the language to communicate and ultimately find a job to feed oneself and survive in that environment requires discipline, persistence, humor, humility, and charm.

But what we expect will be common to such activities will include: showing respect for each other's discipline and insights; a willingness to reconsider one's own discipline from a different point of view; and finally, patience, persistence, and humor.

As Mr. Africk explained, many older Master Gardeners have found a new calling in plants, and their work takes patience and persistence, as well as humor.

Good writing skills, tact, courage, persistence, and sense of humor seem to come up again and again on people's lists.

And is it O.K.? So asks Ms. Brown in "Mr. TOL E. RAncE," which unpacks the history of African-American humor and the persistence of black stereotypes in popular culture.

The eustress-endurance patients had the highest humor/distraction scores, pain persistence, and positive mood despite pain.

The stinging cold of Beckett's landscape is alleviated only by the warmth and humor in his admiration for human persistence in pushing that big old stone called life up a Sisyphean hill.

Closest to the mark here is Mr. Sowers, whose serene persistence with his reluctant bride carries a strain of sly humor and quiet indomitability.

Fed by rain whose persistence has long been the well-merited butt of music hall humor, luxuriant grass feeds hardy sheep from a breed known as Herdwicks.

Friends say that Ms. Abedin had been courted by "a lot of very successful, important people," but it was Mr. Weiner's persistence and tenacity, as well as his confidence and sense of humor, that eventually won her over.