Her eye was cold, her scorn a nourishment; and then, for Hester, too, when more time had passed, there was adversity.
"One of the things I've learned through my experience in sports," he said, "is that when there is adversity, some people jump out of the wagon and some people continue to help the wagon along.
As his coda to an interview about cosmetic surgery marketing, Dr. Wells opened the book and read a passage aloud to a reporter: "You never really know the measure of a man until there is adversity or money on the table".
If there's adversity, then there is clear evidence in the data that the child will be affected and face greater challenges.
Everywhere we turn there's adversity, staring us in the face and challenging our very individual personhood and notions of humanity while we compete with each other in the endless rat race that is life.
When there is adversity, it seems, we humans have all the greater incentive to work out ingenious ways to overcome obstacles, protect ourselves from harm, and chart new territory.
For later childhood adversity models, we used a binary covariate as to whether or not there was adversity in early childhood (optimal vs. aberrant parenting, discordant, and hazardous).
There were few adversities included at age 16 and 21, but at least for social adversity at age 16 in women, the results remained unchanged when excluding each individual adversity, indicating that the results are not driven by a particular exposure.
However, when there were business adversities — and there were many, it translated over into our personal relationship and often resulted in arguments that now I realise were not productive, in the very least, and very destructive to our relationship".
There has been adversity, though.
