demandingness

Leadership in this strange time — or any other, you realize — is less about demandingness than it is about reassurance.

It came straight from Belichick, who for all of his legendary demandingness does not brood over losses and moves on to the next problem.

Was his defect such that no amount of help or incentive, no well-intentioned scripture spouting from Urban Meyer, his coach at Florida, or demandingness and contract-dangling from Patriots Coach Bill Belichick could get him right?

This demandingness is called government, and it can also be seen in the way that verbs and adjectives are picky about their complements.

The language in some of the laws seems to acknowledge their creepy demandingness, while simultaneously magnifying it.