doggedness

With age and experience there can also come an extra doggedness about getting the work done.

"It shows a doggedness that makes this team unique in our history."

Putting one foot before the other with wooden doggedness, she went forward.

The doggedness with which they had taken up the threads of living was itself a reassurance.

There was a doggedness about him that I admired.

He was known for his hard tackling, doggedness and captain like performances.

Then at length a sort of doggedness drove her.

That sort of doggedness is much admired in Japan.

He had earned a reputation for extreme aggression and doggedness in the air.

Since I'd started the job, I kept on with it out of sheer doggedness.

For the biography of a world-class figure, such doggedness might possibly be justified.

The 17 contributors admire the doggedness that has made Alexander a figure of fun to the press.

Soon he stopped and tried to press his face to the surface with more than his usual doggedness.

It can be translated to mean persistence, tenacity, doggedness and hard work.

This Argentina have a defiance, a doggedness, that makes them a considerable threat.

The format's success relies on both the author's doggedness and the reader's curiosity.

Her doggedness had been manifest earlier when the Hoods were late because of a broken bus.

Then, with a kind of forgetful doggedness, he began to pick up the scattered branches once more.

He liked the boy's doggedness, but he was a little wet behind the ears.

But then a certain doggedness took over his life and he bent to what was almost certainly the hardest work he had ever done.

And when he set his mind on something, he persisted with a doggedness that went far beyond determination.

Marcia was a general practitioner with the instincts and doggedness of a detective, he explained.

He moves forward with a muscular doggedness made evident by a chipped front tooth.

Her greatest asset would seem to be her doggedness.

But talent was also a factor, as was Agassi's doggedness.