gumption

It’s a moment when the tables turned, and a health professional was reminded of how difficult it is to get help, once everyday folks get the gumption to ask.

Miss Manners recognizes that this takes gumption and that is the reason that hosts are expected to save their guests that anxiety by making introductions.

He negotiated tooth prices with Molly in days-long back-and-forth communication, and she generally won, but only after showing gumption.

Yes, if you have courage, desire, and gumption to do it, why not?

Will the underdogs prevail through hard work and gumption or will billionaires turn Wisconsin into their own playground?

The expression and gumption she sells the number with her eyes is the real magic of Shirley Temple.

Fashion would lose much of its electricity without the head-snapping magnetism of models moving with gumption down a runway.

Mitt Romney, who has reverted to the not-a-follicle-out-of-place hairstyle, never really got up the gumption to hit Newt.

I guess he just stayed there because he happened to light there and didn't have gumption enough to git out.

This town is God's own country, and there's opportunity for anybody with a pound of energy and an ounce o' gumption.

"Other one has the gumption," said Sharon, casting a final rain of cigar ash upon the abused rug at his feet.

Well, she's got more gumption than any one I've seen here so far—seems to take an interest in what she's doing.

I only wonder that Chicago, with her accredited 'git' and 'gumption,' has not accepted my plan before.