right stuff
Usually the right stuff . the necessary or ideal qualities or capabilities, as courage, confidence, dependability, toughness, or daring.
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The idea wasn’t so much to train men to do a job but to strip away those who didn’t have the right stuff.
How unruly, knife-wielding swimmers became the first Navy SEALs | David Philipps | December 5, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThat’s apt, since Funk outperformed Glenn during the Mercury 13 shadow astronaut trials that showed women also had the right stuff.
Honor his claim that he had no right stuff—and let’s hope he’d honor our belief that, yeah, he actually did.
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5 reasons you don’t want to miss out on TC Sessions: Space 2020 | Alexandra Ames | November 30, 2020 | TechCrunchIt left me knowing what I already suspected, that Jane has the right stuff.
The Mossad devotes an exceptional amount of time and effort determining if an operative possesses the "right stuff."
Ex-Bush aide Mark McKinnon keeps waiting for Romney to turn his campaign around and show the right stuff.
Mark McKinnon on Why Time Is Running Out for Mitt Romney | Mark McKinnon | September 19, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe has lived where he wanted and still got to make The right stuff and his greatest film, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.
The Wonderful ‘Hemingway & Gellhorn:’ Nicole Kidman, Clive Owen, and the HBO Movie | Allen Barra | May 28, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTFew whites believed that blacks had the right stuff to tackle tricky and arduous long-distance flights.
Red Tails Overlooks the Story of America’s First Black Pilots | Marc Wortman | January 16, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST"It's the right stuff," she said, between laughing and crying.
London's Heart | B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) FarjeonThe fellows that make pioneers are the right stuff—you know that.
Poppy | Cynthia StockleySimply because there is not enough of him, or what there is is not of the right stuff.
A New Atmosphere | Gail HamiltonWould he regard me as the right stuff of which to make a man?
Humphrey Bold | Herbert StrangNow these blessed cartridges packed full of the right stuff put an end to furtive doubts.
A Soldier of the Legion | C. N. Williamson
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