Stouthearted, audacious, and autocratic, Nobunaga was quick to seize on any promising new invention.
Dara Singh, a popular professional wrestler who parlayed his fame, physique and stouthearted image into a thriving Bollywood film career as India's first action hero, died on Thursday at his home in Mumbai.
"Dara Singh, a popular professional wrestler who parlayed his fame, physique and stouthearted image into a thriving Bollywood film career as India's first action hero," died on Thursday at his home in Mumbai, Haresh Pandya wrote in The New York Times.
Nearly as good are William Wright's "Lillian Hellman: The Image, the Woman" — a stouthearted book that did its best with limited sources, having been the first to appear, in 1986 — and Joan Mellen's "Hellman and Hammett" (1996), an unsparing psychoanalytical examination of Hellman and Dashiell Hammett, her longtime lover and mentor.
Later, Nick gave us a lift to a pub called the Hand, 15 minutes away by car, where we spent the afternoon observing stouthearted Welsh regulars pass the time with the Sunday paper as they drank ale by the fire.
The Americans could certainly leave with their heads held high after five wins and one stouthearted overtime loss.
The mischief maker and tease who could turn stouthearted defender.
It is the whimper of a wimp, and when Treasury Secretary John Snow failed to make the usual strong-dollar noises for a brief but memorable moment last week, President Bush's top money man was roundly castigated by every stouthearted jingo journalist.
And he used only one speaking actor, as both narrator and the hotheaded Gen. William Alexander, whose regiment of 400 doomed but stouthearted Marylanders held off 2,000 British soldiers for hours on Aug. 27, 1776, to buy George Washington's army time to escape and regroup.
Their tasks can be as simple as helping tourists cross the street and pointing out authentic Neapolitan restaurants to accompanying the stouthearted into seedier — but more authentic — neighborhoods.
He liked to frame his business as an epic battle between small, stouthearted brewers and their evil industrial overlords.
