I envy the novices, those new to the mysteries of opening a seam in the earth, sowing, watering and weeding as the thin green shoots turn sturdy, then blossom and bear their bounty.
The Chargers overcame that too, Sunday, thanks to Melvin Gordon's 104 rushing yards, Philip Rivers' three touchdown passes and the defense's ability to turn sturdy and opportunistic when it mattered most.
The government backed the building of the YS-11, a propeller plane that seated up to 67 passengers and that was unveiled in 1964, but Japanese companies lacked the marketing prowess overseas to turn the sturdy plane into a financial success.
When his father arrives home, he has a smile and a hug for the boy, who falls asleep listening to the waves, knowing that, "One day, it will be my turn". "Large, sturdy, with wide gentle eyes and a ton of love" — this is how the poet remembers Tony, the patient horse who pulled the cart delivering milk, butter and eggs through his town starting every morning at dawn.
Today it turned its sturdy ancient face to a lively, if less certain, future.
For his fourth solo show at the gallery, he collaborated with a glass-and-ceramic studio in Mexico, turning out sturdy objects reminiscent of Picasso's Surrealism-tinged sCalderres, Calder's "stabiles," and the flat, bright palette of Matisse.
Ms. Bigelow, one of the best pure-action directors around, turns a sturdy, conventional script -- a hybrid of "Alien" and "Mutiny on the Bounty" with many nods to submarine movies of the past -- into a swift, tense drama of dueling egos and mechanical catastrophe.
He'll clear out the "green silky" shorts that turn even his sturdy legs into pasty Popsicle sticks.
When apophenia is getting the better of me, I turn to the sturdy pragmatisms of the Shetlandic poet James Stout Angus's Glossary of the Shetland Dialect (1914).
What normally appears sturdy turns fragile: the economy, the climate, humanity's baseline social contract.
Ebeling and Rafalca turned in a sturdy performance, but it lacked the crispness of some of their competitors.
