What is "intestinal fortitude"

Usage examples of "intestinal fortitude".

But perhaps all along, Theisman had possessed the intestinal fortitude to unflinchingly contemplate a resumption of military operations and Giancola, deceived by his insistence on concealing his new fleet until it was ready, simply hadn't recognized it.

If he had had brains or intestinal fortitude to match his build, he would have been the most devastating Dog of all.

When the time came, would he have the intestinal fortitude to do what had to be done?

Magruder had looked through the roster and realized that only Ruin al-Banna had the intestinal fortitude for this job, the raw courage and the overriding commitment to follow through at great personal risk.

After that, patient optimism and intestinal fortitude seemed my only alternatives.

Men don't have our intestinal fortitude, and that ain't changed since Eve, either.

But whatever the public might be prepared to think, Arnold knew that, in the end, and despite any confidence she might project through her much anticipated speech, Pritchart lacked the intestinal fortitude to go to the mat with the Manties if that was what success required.

It took some intestinal fortitude, but Picard lowered his head close enough go nose-to-nose with the innocuous-looking plant.

Armand Pahner had a very clear notion of the sort of intestinal fortitude required for a combat newbie to stay focused—.

We have to come up with something that will give these boys the intestinal fortitude to stick it out when the shit hits the fan.

Armand Pahner had a very clear notion of the sort of intestinal fortitude required for a combat newbie to stay focused—.