Sentence examples for that grit from inspiring English sources

There's always been that grit in the oyster in Swansea.

That, he says, is what he cherishes most: "that heart, that grit".

Luckily, my late father had hammered into me that grit was more important than talent.

Yet the prevailing thesis is that grit is not so easily found in the East Village as it once was.

Like his compatriot Lee Westwood, I'm just not convinced Donald boasts that grit, that indefinable sense of other, that's required to win a major.

It won't necessarily have a huge impact on grades – a recent review found that grit only accounted for 0.5% difference in student's GCSE results – but Duckworth says it can help to prevent at-risk students from dropping out of school.

We catch up with the new lives of Ukrainian refugees, insect farmers in Ghana, and as an antidote to all that grit there's a Le Monde homage to the colour pink, which is apparently back in fashion.

They followed this with his high school sports master giving insights like "he was just a good, quiet studious type of person," and the principle of his last school claiming that "he was determined back then and he hasn't lost that grit and determination you need - not just for sport, but for life in general".

But Duckworth decided that grit is the single trait in our complex and wavering nature which accounts for success; grit is the strong current of will that flows through genetic inheritance and the existential muddle of temperament, choice, contingency everything that makes life life.

Early research from the celebrated psychologist Angela Duckworth (now collected in her excellent new book, Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance) showed that grit--or "perseverance and passion for long-term goals --is one of the best predictors of elite performance, whether in the classroom or in the workforce.

And is there any problem that *grit* can't solve?