It was less about pure brawn, more about brains.
As technology and trade have devalued brawn, less-educated men have struggled to find a role in the workplace.
So we may credit the achiever with brains, brawn or lucky breaks, and let ourselves off the hook because we fall short in all three.
Over the following four and a half decades Ambani took plenty more chances, making bets on vast projects and using brawn and guile to deal with officials and politicians.
When brawn was off the list of job requirements, women often measured up better than men.
Generally, , films these days are less likely to contain the sort of bar brawls, tough-guy scraps and dering-do scenes requiring brawn.
He's got more brawn than brains.
By acquiring expertise in the latest technology and knowledge, I can compete with men on brain rather than brawn power.
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With his brawn and his beautiful rickshaw-springs so flexible that the shafts seemed to vibrate; bright chassis, clean, white cushion and loud horn-he owed it to them both to run really fast.
All brawn and no brains, Ash believes that he can get anyone he wants.
But Shante has the brawn of a 20-year-old, boasts her foster mother, Elizabeth Coe, "and she has teeth like an alligator, which she'll use on anything that gets within reach, including fingers."
