Word: self-control
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...deliver. The Mahto men: as philosophers, fathers, warriors, hunters, and leaders: face questions that all humans face: is my son's bad behavior my fault? As leader of the people, should the people follow me or should I follow them? Is there a God? But her protangonist's quest--self-control and the meaning of existence--she never fully answers...
Vastola's psychological and tactical maneuvers are not only directed at his opponents. They are also aimed at the director. Unlike many fencers Vastola never loses his self-control on the strip. As others fuss, fume and fluster Vastola hides his frustration with dubious calls and uses gentle persuasion to try and get the director thinking "the right...
...stylish lecturer who in spired thousands of students with his incisive and dry-humored dissections of American literature. Brace, though born on Long Island, developed a lifetime love affair with New England (and particularly Maine) that was reflected in the values that his life and novels extolled: duty, moderation, self-control and, above all, the enduring power of reason...
...life-for the attainment of the one goal denied her father and a way of bringing honor to her husband, who has been attacked so often in the past. That would only be a guess, of course. One sign of good breeding, in a horse or a human, is self-control, and Patrice Jacobs Wolfson controls emotions as carefully as Stevie Cauthen controls her horse. She will say just this: "Aside from having good health, my husband and I want only to win the Triple Crown...
Practical politics. But is that all? At the Boar's Head tavern, Prince Hal carouses with his companions in open parody of the society at court; at court, "Hotspur" Percy (the other Hal) releases his rage with the complete lack of self-control typical of the society at the Boar. The two worlds, in other words, are peopled with men and women of the same mettle, though any good production of Henry will, as if constructing a strong suit of armor, in joining the various elements hold them in tension...