Sentence examples for a harder set from inspiring English sources

In her loopy moments, Bridgette seems to have something in common with the magnetically weird pixies played by Parker Posey, but there's a harder set to her jaw, reflecting a survivor's pugnacity.

One British officer, presumed to be Collier, said "The damned rebels at Machias were a harder set than those at Bunker Hill".

"They have a hard set of choices that they have to negotiate".

They have lost their youthful self-deprecation: Delpy has developed a hard set to her mouth and a prickly temper; Hawke speaks in a leathery, low-octave voice and throws himself into clowning and satire and sudden rages.

Of course, getting a PhD is often very restricting in a practical sense — few job opportunities, committing yourself to a lifelong form of hyperspecialized job training — but it's still a hard set of notions to shake.

The overall vision for Athos is to show you how to better balance bike pedaling, breathe better through meditation, push through a hard set of weights, bend into the perfect yoga posture or push the body for maximum efficiency.

But they're also supposed to make sure that injustices don't occur and to only prosecute and convict people if they are guilty, and that's a hard set of competing obligations to balance.

Again, it's not necessarily a hard set mental state to communicate – to GTA's assumed audience of teenage boys and bored young men, smashing up cars and shooting people with guns are easy experiences to sell.

Towards the end of a hard set, the sensations of pain and fatigue sweeping through your body are so powerful that it's almost impossible for your attention to be anywhere else.

Again, it's not necessarily a hard set mental state to communicate to GTA's assumed audience of teenage boys and bored young men, smashing up cars, and shooting people with guns are easy experiences to sell.

Especially in cases when fine-mapping is being pursued toward goals such as positional cloning or establishing pleiotropic action, a hard set of bounds that contain a QTL with a certain confidence is of great interest.