indefatigability

He has been a controversial figure for decades, and faced widespread opposition for meeting in 1994 the then Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and telling him: “Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability.”

In the 1990s, he was heavily criticised for meeting Iraq's leader Saddam Hussein and telling him - in a much-repeated clip - "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability".

Wolfe’s childhood isn’t really delved into, but from his time at Yale onward, we can sense what motivated him — courtesy in his personal life, indefatigability in his professional life and daredevil flamboyance on the page.

Vin Scully, whose soothing delivery, exhaustive knowledge of the game, masterful powers of description and Ripkenesque indefatigability made him the best-known and best-loved baseball broadcaster of the past 50 years, died Aug. 2.

I wasn’t going to adopt an indefatigability or aspire to heroic feats that might transform me into anyone’s idea of a cancer warrior.