Yet beneath her timidity is tenacity.
But the key is tenacity and don't give up.
She is conscious of the "stickiness" of attention in herself, so that there is great tenacity on the one hand but a lack of agility and pliability on the other; she ascribes this to a defect in her cerebellum, the fact that (as an MRI has shown) it is below normal size in her.
And, there is the tenacity of the people who continue to write and take up the space they deserve while calling out the trolls, as Leah Flannigan did with humor and style.
It's luck, and it's tenacity.
If there is one characteristic above all which might give it that internal dynamic, even magic, which could tentatively be said to make it special, it was tenacity.
There's a tenacity bubbling beneath those cotton-mix trouser suits.
"There's a tenacity the dead have on the living that no living person has on you," she says.
Then, of course, there's his tenacity, and all the stuff that made him a great character".
