A high school dropout whose discipline while wearing boxer's garb was his strength, Heard yielded to two weaknesses while in street clothes: gambling and women.
Though your Mum may always remind you of your strengths, hearing the same message from someone outside of your situation can be helpful.
Had we had superpower-strength hearing, we might have heard other applause, too — that of Mary Mapes and her husband, who, sitting on the balcony of their room, saw whales breaching.
Tens of thousands of opposition supporters packed the weekly prayers at Tehran University, chanting slogans in a show of strength to hear Rafsanjani, who was delivering the sermon for the first time since Iran's election turmoil began a month ago.
The need for such help can stem from a chronic illness or the natural decline of eyesight, hearing, strength, balance, and mobility that comes with aging.
In addition, they each took turns telling me about the strengths they heard me display in my story.
As it surges from strength to strength, I've heard from one of last years judges that there were even more entries this year.
I get strength from hearing that.
The fact that, with the variegated types of sense-experience which we in fact have, we can, as we say, 'on the strength of hearing alone' assign directions and distances to sounds, and things that emit or cause them, counts against this not at all.
But for Maria-Therese, blindness was a source of strength, heightened hearing, heightened senses, heightened awareness of the world and of the emotions of the people around her.
