It's this sort of willingness to suffer through disparate circumstances with a smile that seems to have enabled Xi to work his way back up the Party ladder.
Quite simply, he is one of the only politicians in Washington who has demonstrated any sort of willingness to substantively address Medicare reform -- and as both a young voter and a fiscal conservative, correcting that program's terrifying budgetary math ranks near the top of my priorities.
Getting out of your car to knock on her door or ring her doorbell demonstrates this sort of willingness.
Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said, "In place of wit, Guardians offers a sort of generalized willingness to be amusing, an atmosphere of high spirits that feels like lots of people pumping air into a tire that has a hole in it.
…so long as you had those people skills and sort of the willingness to sort of learn something different, and then to apply it.
They think that despite the deep disagreements between different accounts of right action, some sort of actions ("the willingness to sacrifice one's own interests for the benefit of others", for example) will be viewed as "a moral enhancement, on any account of morality" ([ 68]: 5-68]
"Congress sort of already illustrated the willingness to take on the credit card companies and the big banks," said Keith Jones, a lobbyist for 7-Eleven.
But much of the beauty of both Mr. Thompson's performance and Ms. Arbus's production comes from a sort of artistic patience, a willingness to start off quiet and take things slow.
With that sort of underpinning, and a willingness to provide the non-statutory lead provided by the high court judge now stepping off the stage, a compromise around independent regulation should be within the press's grasp.
What John shares with so many of Fox's characters is a sort of exuberant defensiveness, a willingness to speak the unpleasant truth, even when doing so leads you, as it does one of Fox's characters, to get a salad dumped onto your head.
But his realistic advisers say that, since the House may nonetheless feel impelled to impeach, his best solution will be some sort of "plea bargain": a willingness (there is no compulsion in the constitution) to accept Congress's censure, and possibly pay a fine.That was good advice before this week's election, and it remains good afterwards.
