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What comes next is the era of the prudent politician in a boring blue suit who acknowledges that hard problems have no easy solutions, and who spurns towering promises in favor of Churchillian sweat and toil.
And, with a Churchillian platform of “blood, toil, tears, and sweat,” he is not shying away from the painful reforms that Brazil so desperately needs – like overhauling the pension system, simplifying the tax code, and restoring accountability to the political process.
As it happens, Berkeley’s climate is one small reason why I decided to relocate here after three years in Washington, DC, where one learns just how much sweat a wool suit can absorb during the daily commute.
As a child, the mere sight of the dentist chair would cause me to break out in a cold sweat, as I anticipated my forthcoming encounter with the battery of gleaming instruments seemingly designed for the principal purpose of causing excruciating pain.
The leaders of the new Venezuela should acknowledge this, and echo Winston Churchill in promising “[…] toil, tears, and sweat.”
CAMBRIDGE – You don’t have to break a sweat to be a finance skeptic these days.
Brexit Sweat and TearsLONDON – I recently saw an American play in London called “Sweat,” written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Lynn Nottage.
For better or worse, Johnson’s strategy for attaining power has left him with only one viable option: Forget about negotiating with the EU before the October 31 Brexit deadline, call a general election for that day, seek a popular mandate for a no-ifs-no-buts no-deal divorce from Europe, and then sit back and watch his domestic and foreign adversaries sweat it out.
The slanting rays of the sun were still hot; his clothes were wet through with perspiration and stuck to his body; his left boot, full of water, was heavy and made a smacking sound; down his face, grimy with powder, ran drops of sweat; a bitter taste was in his mouth, the smell of powder and rust was in his nose, and the perpetual cry of the snipe was in his ears; he could not touch the barrels of his gun, they were so hot; his heart thumped with short, quick beats; his hands trembled with excitement and his tired feet stumbled as he dragged them over the hummocks and through the bog; but still he went on and shot.
The next such note he changed to buy provisions for a family dinner, costing twenty-eight roubles; and though he remembered that twenty-eight roubles was the price of nine chetverts of oats mown, bound into sheaves, threshed, winnowed, sifted, and shovelled with sweat and groans, nevertheless it went more easily than the first.
He was blinded by sweat, and he despaired of catching up the others, whose agile limbs he heard brushing against the rock with a long gliding movement.
In a quarter of an hour he was soaked, and at the same time covered with sweat, smoking as with the hot steam of a laundry.
They were already black with coal, soaked in a fine dust diluted with sweat which ran down in streams and pools.
She shivered a little from the coldness of her garments soaked in sweat, with a gentle resigned air, ready to submit to things and men.
Even after the second journey, the sweat ran off them and their joints began to crack.
The others were there, covered with sweat in the icy current, silent like himself, swallowing their grunts of rage.
Only she began to sweat with this tremendous exertion of her arms, so exhausted and out of breath that her words were choked.
They dug on, soaked in sweat, their muscles tense to breaking.
Two overseers undressed and then washed with a sponge this corpse blackened with coal and still dirty with the sweat of work.
"I was expecting that--the accusation of starving the people and living by their sweat.
She scarcely saw them by the reddish gleam of the lamps, entirely naked like animals, so black, so encrusted in sweat and coal, that their nakedness did not frighten her.
As soon as she came up to the clay wall, the fiery torture again began, and the sweat fell from her whole body in enormous drops as from a storm-cloud.
It was nearly ten o'clock, and they took their lunch into a cool corner before going back to sweat at the bottom of the cutting.
Out of breath, and suffocated by this race of three kilometres which had once more bathed her in sweat, she gave herself up, without understanding, to the eddies of the crowd.
He was, in fact, suffering from the coal glued to his skin by sweat, and his woollen garment was no protection.
"Take out your scent-bottles, the sweat of the people is passing by!" murmured Négrel, who, in spite of his republican convictions, liked to make fun of the populace when he was with ladies.
He had now pulled out of his pocket a handful of silver, which he exhibited with drunken ostentation, saying that he had earned that with his sweat, and that he defied the shammers to show ten sous.
Chaval, who was bathed in sweat and striking at random, soon became exhausted.
The thaw was increasing; a regular shower was falling from the roofs, a moist sweat flowed down the walls, the palings, the whole confused mass of this industrial district lost in night.
Then, when Trompette, bathed in sweat, lay in agony in his litter, Bataille had smelled at him despairingly with short sniffs like sobs.
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