Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.
I came out of school just at the time regional theater was first expanding. All of a sudden, lots of new companies needed actors.
It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.