Sentence examples for real mettle from inspiring English sources

Mr. Spitzer, he added, "showed real mettle".

Soon, however, Mr. Eddington will have a chance to show his real mettle.

"This vote shows some real mettle on the part of pro-life members of the House who put principal above party," Mr. Smith said.

It's in her scenes with Silverstone that Linney shows her real mettle, in a way that recalls the tradition of Katharine Hepburn, Mildred Natwick, and Julie Harris — actresses with a nearly puritanical forthrightness and clarity of purpose that paved the way for Linney's own.

CNN, of course, has a proud legacy to fall back on, as it is the entity that kicked off the tradition of 24 hour cable news channels in the first place, and its coverage of the first Gulf War demonstrated that it had minted real newsgathering mettle.

It is going to be a real test of his mettle.

At least until the making of "The Wind," when this prankishly death-obsessed songwriter movingly tested his mettle against the real thing.

This is the first real test of opening weekend mettle for Amanda Seyfried and Channing Tatum, and both passed with flying colors.

But the real test of the group's mettle was in the large, polyphonic works.

If the tribulations of getting into your chosen establishment seemed competitive, it's the obstacle course of university itself that is the real test of a student's mettle.

This much is also clear to me after all these years: That the real test of an athlete's mettle is what he represents off the court, off the field, beyond the ring.