How To Use Fortitude In A Sentence

With Spartan fortitude he had to squeeze his chilblained feet into wet socks and soggy boots frozen solid.
I thought I should have fainted; but a torrent of tears recalled the ebbing current of my heart, and I grew proud in fortitude, though humbled in self-love. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
I admire your fortitude, but there's a fine line between being a trouper and recklessness.
We're experts at turning a noble fiasco into a story about fortitude and stoicism.
On the contrary, they ask us to face them head on with courage, humour and fortitude. Times, Sunday Times

Now Israel and its leaders must boldly pursue its inherent, often unexpected, wisdom to dismiss with conviction and fortitude national leaders who demand their exilic state and to finally take its rightful place as the nation from whom other nations are inspired. Kevin Bermeister: The Neck And The Site Of The Temple
Her passing, after a long illness borne with true courage and fortitude, touched the hearts of all who knew her.
Acutely sensitive to vulnerability, he delineated unassertive fortitude with steady expertise. Times, Sunday Times
Past generations had much worse to deal with, but showed stoicism, forbearance and fortitude.
Most were young, hardy, physically fit, courageous, fearless, bold, endowed with fortitude and endurance, and ever ready for a fight.
The wind is blustering through the trees outside, and every so often assails the outside walls of my house as if testing their fortitude.
He stands at the top of the incline beside the Canadian flag, grasping the rope and displaying great physical strength as well as moral fortitude.
This is usually cited as evidence of British fortitude - the attitude exemplified by cockneys in the heavily bombed East End who told Winston Churchill, ‘We can take it, but give it 'em back.’
It shows amazing fortitude to cope with that over so much time. Times, Sunday Times
Now he must prove his mental fortitude by jumping straight back on his horse and into a meaningful test. The Sun
He died peacefully after an illness borne with great fortitude and resolve.
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But he took it with great fortitude. Times, Sunday Times
(This assumes they have the fortitude to stare down the Chinese, who currently hold a whopping portion of US debt, and deny them something they really want).
He fought for a fair time, aware he had fortitude but neither real courage nor strength.
What I'm trying to say with such a long recount of an incident which took probably less than 10 seconds is this: some of us are born with the ABILITY and WILLINGNESS, call it intestinal fortitude, to deliver harmful force, even lethal force, to others. Spray and Pray: Why cops should go back to carrying revolvers
Adeline had no retrospect of past delight to give emphasis to present calamity — no weeping friends — no dear regretted objects to point the edge of sorrow, and throw a sickly hue upon her future prospects: she knew not yet the pangs of disappointed hope, or the acuter sting of self-accusation; she had no misery, but what patience could assuage, or fortitude overcome. The Romance of the Forest
The time will soon come; grief and famine have already sapped the foundations of my being; a very short time, and I shall have passed away; unstained by the crime of self-destruction, unstung by the memory of degradation, my spirit will throw aside the miserable coil, and find such recompense as fortitude and resignation may deserve. The Last Man
I thought she showed remarkable fortitude during that period.
On her death-bed the fortitude and benignity of this admirable woman did not desert her. Chapter 2
The illness, of which she is now clear, would have debilitated a husband of lesser fortitude.
My pock had become so sore and troublesome ’, soldier Lemuel Roberts recalled, ‘that my clothes stuck fast to my body, especially to my feet; and it became a severe trial to my fortitude, to bear my disorder’.
He died peacefully after a short illness borne with characteristic courage and fortitude.
It takes a measure of artistic fortitude to lovingly depict the ordinary, and ample skill to finesse it into quietly seductive works of art.
Winnie is a woman of quiet fortitude who has endured a lot of suffering.
He had judged her without question, but could attribute fortitude and resolution to Matilda despite the Empress's glaring faults.
Anderson cuts back the distracting noises and crumbling static to reveal a stark paean about Odyssean fortitude.
And, because it requires dedicated focus and long-term perseverance, it is seen as a way of righting wrongs and gaining the physical strength and moral fortitude to combat evil. Donna Henes: Lent: Hungering For Spirit
The fact that he is continuing with his work is certainly a testament to his spirit and to his fortitude.
Without a college degree, this son of a single parent built a real estate empire with tremendous fortitude, business and political savvy, and a healthy dose of kismet.
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Rosica really means by the phrase “civility, charity, mercy and politeness” is a kind of pantywaist political correctness, void of testicular fortitude, that is so afraid to identify and call out blatant evil in the public square. On Catholic Crowd-Pleasers
Els, though, exhibited the fortitude to hold his own when others were holding post-mortems.
Development also requires moral virtues such as courage and fortitude in the face of well-understood trials and difficulties. Times, Sunday Times
Instead, they recognise an inspiring figure, who has sustained some very public scars but had the dignity and fortitude to overcome them. Times, Sunday Times
Othello, the fortitude of the place is best known to you; and though we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safer voice on you: you must therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this more stubborn and boisterous expedition. Othello, the Moore of Venice
On her death-bed the fortitude and benignity of this best of women did not desert her. Chapter 3
‘Tonight shows my sense of fortitude and courage,’ he jested.
Even in his younger days, the inimitable strength and fortitude in his voice was mixed with the occasional moment of weakness, the odd quaver and show of vulnerability.
Peter, who was aged 72, died following an illness borne with much courage and fortitude.
Does he have the fortitude to actually NAME the country he would like to slur, or is he the sort of intellectual coward who hides behind a snide comment rather than a reasoned argument?
Face obstacles and difficulties at work and at home with courage and fortitude.
I thought I should have fainted; but a torrent of tears recalled the ebbing current of my heart, and I grew proud in fortitude, though humbled in self-love. Memoirs of Mary Robinson
He suffered a long series of illnesses with tremendous dignity and fortitude.
Yet Christian women have endured a yet more fearful ordeal to their tender affection, watching, supporting, and finding unfailing fortitude to uphold the sufferer in agonies that must have rent their hearts. A Book of Golden Deeds
Publishing in research journals requires fortitude, resilience and persistence.
If fortitude be that by which "they that hunger are blessed," let us pray that our daily bread be this day given us, by which we may come to full saturity. Catena Aurea - Gospel of Matthew
It stresses the virtues of wisdom, justice, fortitude, and moderation.
The imagination and fortitude shown by the actors in this book are undoubtedly immense. Times, Sunday Times
Is it worthy of that manly fortitude that ought to characterize republicans?
Your sacrifices and fortitude are honored and your rewards are the gratitude of those saved at sea, a cleaner coastland, a more educated public and a safer America.
For myself, I could have borne the severest infliction from the pen of the most formidable critic with more fortitude than I bore the cutting up of my first loaf of bread. Roughing It in the Bush
Our foreparents lived through sea changes, upheavals so cataclysmic, so devastating we may never appreciate the fortitude and resilience required to survive them.
She endured her illness with great fortitude.
In this tense account of danger and fortitude, the young surgeon discovers that he and his European medical colleagues are more lost and rootless than those they have come to help.
What language is adequate to depicture the goodness and the fortitude of that heart which dared to contend alone, against the chilling repukes of a frozen-hearted world and the strong arm of misfortune? "The Life and Character of John Howard," Senior Speech of Richard T. Weaver, April 1846
Perhaps being war babies had given them interminable patience, fortitude and resilience.
Even an avocation demands strenuous devotion and fortitude.
A very friendly and outgoing person, she bore her illness with great fortitude.
Cicero said "The term virtue is from the word that signifies man; a man's chief quality is fortitude. Archive 2007-08-01
Personally, I have bladder fortitude and a fear of peeing in mobile places so I'm not really familiar with the dement ions of portable toilets, but being a trained observer I'm pretty sure they might need a bit more space. 10K update and two different views toward wheelchair users, me and my 10K competition
Thus I continue my journey - and display great fortitude by not visiting a castle. Times, Sunday Times
The ancients, who by many are thought best to have understood human nature, did not think tears unmanful, or disgraceful to a man of true fortitude; as might be amply shewn, if needful. A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour��s Miracles: viz. The Raising of Jairus��s daughter, The Widow of Naim��s son, and Lazarus.
Els, though, exhibited the fortitude to hold his own when others were holding post-mortems.
I hope that our Farmers understand that out in the country as a whole, we are with them and that our admiration for their fortitude is boundless. Archive 2007-08-12
The fact that he's still trying for the championship is a tribute to his intestinal fortitude.
But before the country knew how to react – it is at once overwhelmingly Catholic but is also a macho society that may consider the procreational activities of its leader a sign of fortitude – two more shoes or, rather, babies, dropped. As the world turns...in Paraguay
What a stunning show of fortitude, skill and sheer determination. The Sun
Long runs forge the physical strength and mental fortitude you need to endure the final stretches of the triathlon.
A daughter shows her worth by the three excellences: to bear herself above reproach, to bear children fruitfully, and to bear suffering with fortitude. Wildfire
Yet the grouping must find the same internal fortitude to learn from adversity as it has done in the past.
Saints must have lived an exemplary life, displaying the virtues of prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice, as well as showing faith, hope and charity.
Some of his misgivings about the mental fortitude of his players remain. Times, Sunday Times
She met an illness some years ago in a brave fashion which marked her down as woman of courage and fortitude.
This is a very tough burden to bear and respect must be shown to any man/woman who shows the fortitude to take on that responsibility.
He will almost certainly lose but I admire his fortitude. The Sun
However, there are the others through which the fortitude of the first Gullahs and Geechees still lives.
As in the West, alcohol in Taiwanese culture is a social lubricant, the imbibing of which is seen by many as a measure of fortitude and spunk -- particularly if drinkers knock down a shot of hard liquor like kaoliang in one gulp. Archive 2006-06-01
Happy would it have been, had she exerted an equal degree of fortitude in repelling the first attacks upon her virtue! The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact
There was heroic, life-shortening labour in hacking the earliest fields out of the post-glacial wildwood and scrub, but nothing to envy save the sheer fortitude of those who accomplished it.
Cancer sufferers may show stoicism, fortitude and nobility. Times, Sunday Times
Eli, helpfully, makes it clear where the difference in mindset is when he discusses parents in the inner city who have the fortitude to raise children who can actually make an effort to tale advantage of an education: the fact that they possess the parenting fortitude their ghetto-peers do not is for me no greater emergency than that of the “left behind”. Matthew Yglesias » Charter School Metaphors
A pliant corporate media proclaimed Harris' testimony proof of his political fortitude.
The House would also deeply sympathise with the Sovereign in deploring the vicissitudes to which a large and important portion of her subjects had been subjected, and in her admiration of the fortitude with which they had been sustained. Opening of Parliament
Each now, separately, and with nearly equal difficulty, strove to attain fortitude to seek an explanation. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
We cannot accredit his survival to clinical treatment of neurasthenia, but perhaps his vicarious experience on the mesa with Tom Outland can account for his fortitude.
The wind is blustering through the trees outside, and every so often assails the outside walls of my house as if testing their fortitude.
But it is certain that, in his youth, he was generally believed to possess, not merely that average measure of fortitude which qualifies a soldier to go through a campaign without disgrace, but that high and serene intrepidity which is the virtue of great commanders, [698] It is equally certain that, in his later years, he repeatedly, at conjunctures such as have often inspired timorous and delicate women with heroic courage, showed a pusillanimous anxiety about his personal safety. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3
Janet met each challenge with fortitude and a wry good humor.
Here, at last, is a movie which celebrates the power and fortitude of the Grandmother, in this case that most sturdy exemplar of the breed, the Determined French Peasant.
Robyn had fought her illness so valiantly, amazing doctors and others with her fortitude over and over again.
She bore her illness with great fortitude.
The people had to know another tale of courage and fortitude and love.
We were, however, consoled by reflecting, that every thing which zeal, fortitude, and seamanship, could produce, was concentred in her commander. The Settlement at Port Jackson
We're experts at turning a noble fiasco into a story about fortitude and stoicism.
He battled his illness with characteristic courage and fortitude and displayed a positive attitude to the end.
Clove Eppingwell vanishes from the story after a single mention but Charley admires Mrs. Eppingwell, a cheery lady of great fortitude and courage. “There be things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice.”
He says he wants the country to show resolve and fortitude. Times, Sunday Times
As Mom faced her illness, she did so in a spirit of fortitude based on an implicit faith and a godly life.
Winnie is a woman of quiet fortitude who has endured a lot of suffering.
Time and increasing exposure has shown him to be a loudmouth crybaby, gutless hypocrite, economic buffoon, geopolitical imbecile, and possessed of the emotional fortitude of a ten-year-old.
When the going gets tough, you toughies really do get up - so make the extra effort this week to help others not fortunate enough to have been born Capricorns with some of your true grit, fortitude and soul support.
His mental fortitude has also impressed City's coaches. Times, Sunday Times
Her plucky exhortation that ‘with the help of God and some intestinal fortitude, many can change their lives, if they choose to do so’ made me want to wrap my bootstraps around her little neck.
These black periods must have been harrowing in the extreme, but were borne with great fortitude and courage.
It is also about courage, fortitude and craft. Times, Sunday Times
Even now in his weakened state when it would take all his strength, fortitude and focus to get from his seat in the plane to the wheelchair awaiting us in the jetway, he called forth the Holy Spirit and the entire MSIA ministerial body to assist in the landing. Carol Jones: The Plane Ride Home From Houston
Pursue me, persecute me no longer, but suffer me to abide by myself, till my fortitude is better strengthened to meet my destiny! ' Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
The thought of him will always be to us an invaluable source of encouragement and fortitude.
Having decided to introduce a gay character (whilst no doubt congratulating themselves for their moral fortitude) the scriptwriters show no inclination to explore the issue further.
Finally a state legislator with some intestinal fortitude is attempting to repeal the requirement that one has to obtain a pistol permit from the county sheriff before one may buy a handgun (or crossbow). Should Felons Hunt?
Nation's fate we are ungoverned and unled, and to all appearance we are content to be so, and the leader-writers trained in the tradition of respectable formalism interpret the Nation's apathy as fortitude. Lessons of the War Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith
It boasts the courage and fortitude of the former while aspiring to the sophistication of the latter. Times, Sunday Times
But with amazing resilience and fortitude the man and his players bounced back.
Yet here, as many another time in these devious manoeuvres, that fearful dilemma interposed -- inseparable in its many forms from all collective action whether in cabinet or party; so fit to test to the very uttermost all the moral fortitude, all the wisdom of a minister, his sense of proportion, his strength of will, his prudent pliancy of judgment, his power of balance, his sure perception of the ruling fact. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3) 1809-1859
I was a little glum at the thought of walking back up but it's wonderful what the promise of a farmhouse lunch can conjure up in the way of fortitude.
Rather than fortitude, courage or conviction, his morality play teaches resignation, passivity and submission.
He suffered a long series of illnesses with tremendous dignity and fortitude.
Our courage and fortitude enables them to spread their opinion about us without interruption. Times, Sunday Times
This dreadful shake might have been palliated, at least, if not spared, by the lessons of fortitude that noble woman would have inculcated in her young and ductile mind. Camilla
Yet it may suit her style, which is based on endurance and mental fortitude rather than speed. Times, Sunday Times
Her voice was so expressive because of its incredible calm and internal fortitude, never needing to do too much or to over-elaborate.
Fortitude is distinct from valor.
That internal fortitude is one of the most powerful things you can possess as a writer. Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » The Only Way to Know If You’ll Be a Successful Writer
To be sure, depicted as jovial, effable, and magnanimous throughout, the beaten ‘Bull’ continues to embody ‘manly’ virtues such as fortitude, determination, persistence, strength, vigor, and so forth.
This post is therefore a severe test of that resolution and fortitude.
Past generations had much worse to deal with, but showed stoicism, forbearance and fortitude.
Without a college degree, this son of a single parent built a real estate empire with tremendous fortitude, business and political savvy, and a healthy dose of kismet.
My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits, and endeavoured by arguments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life, to inspire me with fortitude, and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me. Chapter 9
Plus he had the mental fortitude. Times, Sunday Times
If Capello wants to remind his England players that he has the Midas touch, or to show them the meaning of mental fortitude, he could not do much better than show them the video of that game together with an explanation of how he outthought a Barça team packed with fluidity and flair. Cornered Fabio Capello knows precisely how to square the circle
Tom Crean's story, a testament of human fortitude against all the elements of Antartica is brought to life in this dramatic solo performance.
More mental fortitude was required as a power cut meant another long delay. Times, Sunday Times
The English character actors did their furrow-browed ancient Roman with cod fortitude.
Beside her, as part of an alternating sequence of passive and active virtues, Fortitude is dressed for battle with mace and pavis in hand. 52 30 Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
Here in short spellbinding essays are glimpses of the tumultuous life that led Angelou to an exalted place in American letters and taught her lessons in compassion and fortitude: how she was brought up by her indomitable grandmother in segregated Arkansas, taken in at thirteen by her more worldly and less religious mother, and grew to be an awkward, six-foot-tall teenager whose first experience of loveless sex paradoxically left her with her greatest gift, a son. ReadABlog.com New Blogs and RSS Feeds
Tom, a very strong man in his sixties had been ill for quite some time and bore his illness with courage and fortitude.
Sincere faith and fortitude in the will of God gave him the strength to carry his cross.
How is that for mental fortitude? Times, Sunday Times
They stuck to their task, showed great fortitude and skill and put their batsmen under consistent pressure. Times, Sunday Times
In "The King's Speech" Mr. Firth uses a touching combination of vulnerability and fortitude to play Albert, Duke of York — George VI once he ascends the throne after the abdication of his older brother, Edward VIII. With Vulnerability and Fortitude
He is a miracle of fortitude.
This sound denoted what the Apostles received interiorly, a fullness of power and fortitude.
Without the technology of printing today, we would not have easy access to the wisdom of Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologica defining the cardinal virtues of prudence, temperance, justice and fortitude. Clarence B. Jones: The Pursuit of Excellence and the Challenge to Dream
He didn't require miraculous surgery so much as mental fortitude and bottomless reserves of patience.
Time and increasing exposure has shown him to be a loudmouth crybaby, gutless hypocrite, economic buffoon, geopolitical imbecile, and possessed of the emotional fortitude of a ten-year-old.
Drawing upon other-worldly fortitude and raw courage, Ali simply outlasted Foreman, with his rope-a-dope tactics, before knocking him out in the eighth round.
The endurance of the generation of 1914 was one of the wonders of human fortitude down the ages.
The public was impressed by the family's dignity and fortitude, the way it dealt with misfortune. Times, Sunday Times
Down the years she bore the injuries and scars of that tragic event with great fortitude and resolve.
Eidophone conversations with two other crewmen's wives had been difficult-when at least they were accepting God's will in Christian fortitude, and wanted only to ask about sending messages or gifts to the men they would never remeet in his life. Explorations
_Patience, Perseuerance, Greatnes_, and _Strong Trust_, These pages are to _Fortitude_ their King, _Patience_ that suffers, and esteemeth iust, What euer woe, for vertue fortunes bring; The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Fortitude and keep a clerk busy for one hour while she picks out half a dozen fourpenny nails. Main Street
And she has embraced change with courage and fortitude. The Sun
They were a special group imbued with incredible mental fortitude. Times, Sunday Times
This post is therefore a severe test of that resolution and fortitude.
Methinks there should be that magnanimity in every Christian, that he should scorn to be outbraved by any, in point of spiritual fortitude; and to make that noble resolution that Nehemiah did, in chap. vi. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V.
Strengthened thus in fortitude, she descended chearfully to supper, where Mr. Tyrold, though he saw with pain that her spirits were constrained, felt the fondest satisfaction in the virtue of her exertion. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
He deserves a lot of credit for going after the whole idea, and for having the fortitude to do so in the computationally deficient early 1960s.
I thought she showed remarkable fortitude during that period.
Fortitude is distinct from valour.
For as far as the words go, it is lawful to say: 'St. Peter, pity me, save me, open for me the gate of heaven'; also, 'Give me health of body, patience, fortitude', etc., provided that we mean 'save and pity me by praying for me ';' grant me this or that by thy prayers and merits. ' The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
The mercenaries of the caliph were dismayed at the approach of an enemy who neither asked nor accepted quarter; and the difference between, them in fortitude and patience, is expressive of the change which three centuries of prosperity had effected in the character of the Arabians. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
For that we can thank the fortitude of American forces under George Washington, the siegecraft of French troops of Gen. Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, the count of Rochambeau - and the relentless bloodthirstiness of female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquitoes. Malarial mosquitoes helped defeat British in battle that ended Revolutionary War

How To Use Fortitude In A Sentence

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