Working from the small farmhouse of her kindly adoptive parents on the coast of Brittany, Mathilde, who walks with a limp due to childhood polio, sets about her task with great vigour, and Jeunet uses Tautou's winsome good looks as an innocent mask for her steely determination.
It's a measure of the remarkable lengths to which she has gone to avoid being pigeonholed, of the concentration and persistence with which she sets about the task of becoming her characters, that seeing her as a frantic, lovestruck 60-something seems not in the least unlikely.
Even Hannah Rothschild, Victor's grandchild, found her path littered with obstacles when she set about the task of piecing together a biography that would go behind the familiar anecdotes.
Faced with the prospect of a vegetative husband, his wife, Monica — three months pregnant with their first child — refused to despair; assisted by an indefatigable extended family, she set about the task of restoring his life.
When all 20 students had gone, she set about disassembling her classroom -- a task that, on a 90-degree day, seemed as onerous as moving an entire house of furniture.
After a three-hour rain delay, she set about the not inconsiderable task of taming the thundering ground strokes of Kuznetsova; outweighed but not outgunned, she won 6-2, 6-2 in an hour and 19 minutes.
When she has gathered together a chirpy band of five-, six- and seven-year-olds, she solemnly sets about the task of teaching.
Of course, the first time Chinese officials seriously set about accomplishing this task they are immediately ensnared in a classic case of Catch-22.
Kate Prince is another choreographer-director who never loses sight of her audience's wish to be entertained, and The Mad Hatter's Tea Party sets about the task with riotous energy.
The enthusiasm with which Hisham sets about the task of answering this is touching.
