It is also true that Beckett's rigor and discipline can make other theater look trivial and loquacious.
He was a gifted, even inspired teacher, and he opened my eyes to the depth and rigor that true reading demands.
Despite the outlandish, colorful costumes, the dancers, performing with precision and rigor, stayed true to the ominous message: Don't get too comfortable — a nightmare could be lurking around the corner.
If the cost of the pure rigor of true faith is the salvation of the happy few, then this condemns the rest of us, in our millions and billions, to a life that is a kind of mockery.
While this had always been true, Princeton's academic rigor and my newfound feeling of mediocrity intensified these feelings.
So insurers are spared the rigors of true competition, and they end up with high costs and spotty service.
George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," perhaps the most famous classical-jazz piece, actually started its life as a true if accidental combination of classical rigor and jazz spontaneity.
In short, hope for the best — divine that one, perfect name and discover it's eminently available — but plan for the more likely scenario — follow a tried-and-true process that balances inspiration and rigor.
However, he conceded in this text without crediting Foucher that neither he nor Descartes can provide an argument from reason that demonstrates "with evidence" or "with geometric rigor" that this belief is true.
But just as the rainbow results from the presence of genuine unities, the water droplets (to continue the metaphor, even if this is not true when speaking with Leibniz in metaphysical rigor), so do the bodies of the natural world result from the genuine simple substances.
