The phrase "and something harder" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to an additional challenge or task that is more difficult than what has already been mentioned.
Example: "I completed the easy puzzles, and something harder is next on my list."
Alternatives: "and a greater challenge" or "and a tougher task".
The Return has a timeless quality, as movement melds with live music, including excerpts from Monteverdi's Il Ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria, Mahler, folk songs and something harder and more industrial.
Mr. Foxx often seems uncomfortable in his role, wavering between pathos and something harder and truer, but his scatlike delivery of some of Ayers's twisting ropes of words can be mesmerizing.
Similar elements--technical prowess and something harder to pin down--are also present in the organisms (the scientists) that set out to develop those cultures.
"I imagined laughing with him the way we laugh together in here, and something hard and icy in my heart began to melt... .. Laughter softens armor and invites healing in.
Thus, Box will want to expand beyond its current key offering — file storage and syncing — and into something harder to commoditize.
And then something harder to describe: the ones who, whether they had arrived months or years previously, still seemed to live in two worlds and two languages.
On Tuesday, Qahtan Sweid greeted it with the cynicism that colors virtually any pronouncement the United States makes here, itself a somewhat intangible but pervasive legacy of seven years of invasion, occupation, war and, now, something harder to define.
While sweet dessert wines, like Port or Moscato d'Asti, are traditional with chocolate, Canora likes to take an unconventional route and sip something harder.
She talks about the steeliness of needles and scissors; sewing is something harder and colder.
And Gugino, as a Hollywood agent on "Entourage," met a high-powered client's evasions and narcissism with something harder: a contained, undemonstrative self-interest.
But by making it big, and physical, and glowy, it becomes something harder to ignore — something you can't just swipe away.
