Sloan valued steadfastness in the face of challenge above all, and his teams were the model of discipline and teamwork, running precise screens and rigid patterns that stood out in a sport that increasingly embraced improvisation.
The quiet palette, it seems, is meant to convey the quiet but crucial values of steadfastness and dedication.
Similarly, a mother remarked on how she valued an oncologist's steadfastness in responding to her husband's questions: ' He kept asking the same question but she [the oncologist] never, ever wavered.
Merkel has established herself as the best and strongest voice of the values of a liberal Europe, and her steadfastness under pressure – at least her rhetorical steadfastness, for her policies have been modified to accommodate some of her critics' concerns – is a beacon in a continent that is increasingly inward turning, nativist and afraid.
The Times's evolution is a complex and paradoxical story, of steadfastness and willingness to change, of owners and their staffs espousing core values of fairness, accuracy and impartiality, while evolving their ideas of who the readers are and what they want and need, in adapting to new technologies and in redefining fundamental concepts of the news and how to present it.
Unhot is this everyday-existence thing, and so we continue to celebrate that same handful who were truly great, or at least immensely curvy, and, as long as we do, the smallest drop of their sweat has value.... Perhaps what these auctions prove is that the cult of celebrity lends our society the little steadfastness it has..
In the value system of upper-class Englishmen, for example, cricket embodies the qualities of fair play, valour, graceful conduct, and steadfastness in the face of adversity.
Sufferness and steadfastness.
