Sentence examples for underdog quality from inspiring English sources

Vicky VerPlanck, the yearbook adviser, said she was a substitute teacher for several years at all the schools in the district and preferred Elmhurst because "it has an underdog quality".

"Now she has an underdog quality that she never could have hoped for before".

Not that she's shaken what one of her "Emotion" collaborators, Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend, recently described to me as her appealing underdog quality.

In a less enthusiastic review for The New York Times, Jon Pareles believed West's elevated status undermines the underdog quality that accentuated his debut album: "for much of Late Registration, the striver has turned into a hip-hop V.I.P., and a cool arrogance has crept into the songs".

All the reasons behind Sandra Bullock's success -- her sly wit, underdog quality and ability to somehow be both quirky and tremendously graceful at the same time -- are on full display during her acceptance speech for the sports drama, "The Blind Side".

"Do you love Albion, this fine nation, hate boredom, fear and desperation?" it goes, riffing on the spiritual underdog qualities that move the band.

Away to Köln, Thomas Tuchel's maddeningly inconsistent men had absurdly high possession numbers last seen in Munich in the Guardiola days but there was neither precision nor pace in the attacking areas against a side playing "clever, high-quality, underdog football", as Süddeutsche Zeitung said.

"So I expect it to be tough all the way, and I expect to compete with the same underdog mentality, with the same quality of every vote counts.

In "Topdog/Underdog," she has plowed those qualities directly into the characters.

In fact, the industry underdogs are, for the most part, solid quality cars, according to J.D. Power and Associates ratings on quality, design and performance.

This time around, it's an underdog which, in the areas that count, has the quality to go all the way.