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have no stomach for





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He knows I have no stomach for violence and I know he loses patience with some of the intricately plotted films that I like.

From Washington Post Nov. 6, 2021

What they have no stomach for is inaction, endless churn and threats from abroad.

From New York Times Apr. 24, 2017

"I have no appetite for sitting in a room and watching 150 power point slides, filled with corporate mediocrity and corporate politics - I have no stomach for that at all," he said.

From Reuters Nov. 26, 2012

“The problem with America is that we just have no stomach for competition,” he once admiringly recalled a Japanese executive telling him.

From Slate Jun. 27, 2012

He would later say, quoting Henry Austin Dobson, that “fame is a food that dead men eat /1 have no stomach for such meat.”

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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