— Andy Revkin (@Revkin) 10 May 13 @Revkin 2. Stretch is about testing boundaries, via both exploration and innovation – sustaining curiosity and the courage to fail and fear.
By the end of the 19th century, this commitment to character formation, to sustaining "curiosity and humility," as Delbanco writes, was in sharp tension with a commitment to professionalization. Colleges were becoming universities, which meant they were getting into the business of research.
Her relationship with the Camerons became an object of sustained media curiosity after the emergence of a photograph taken on 1 January 2011, taken as she and her partner, film director Tim Burton, accompanied the Camerons and education secretary Michael Gove on a country walk.
Behind the celebration of Mr. Rohmer's perfection lies an implied accusation of complacency: even approving critics have at times grumbled that the world he portrays on the screen is too narrow, its emotions too circumscribed, its ironies too schematic, to sustain our curiosity or feed our hunger for vicarious experience.
As Monica Bellucci once said: "beauty is just five minutes long if you don't have anything else to sustain that curiosity.
Wolff's curiosity sustained him for 15 years in this city, and many more elsewhere in a professional journey that wound through Madison Square Garden and continues today for News 12 Long Island.
Whether or not Microsoft can sustain the initial curiosity around Bing and keep its market share gains over the long term remains to be seen.
It's hard to feel any need to when the curators don't seem to have been looking, at least not with sustained openness, rigor and disinterested curiosity.
It is, perhaps, this sense of relentless curiosity that has sustained Phillips's youthfulness, as much as her exercise regime or her youngest daughter or her younger husband.
She has that coveted quality, that quiet, unassuming allure, a sensuality sustained by an intense intelligence and sense of innocent, but fiery curiosity.
