| Before meeting Tom I had concluded that drinking was the way to steel oneself for the escapades boys get themselves into. |
| When approaching an oeuvre and nearing its disarticulated parts, one sometimes must steel oneself for the thudding sensation it delivers. |
| Maybe Romanians are a more patient people, or we're seeing the remnants of a culture where, not all that long ago, one had to steel oneself from overt expression, lest the unwelcome interest of the Securitate be drawn. |
| If one were to steel oneself against the fear and humiliation that discriminatory verbal or pictorial abuse precipitates, one might fail to recognize serious threats for what they are. |
| There is no worry of growing weary of having to steel oneself for still another spin on a play, a poem, or a short story. |
| Though it rarely pays to invest for a full-scale meltdown or disaster, at the very least, one should steel oneself for a mean regression in credit that will dampen growth for sometime. |
