There, too, age may play a role: "I became hardened in the way that doctors have to become hardened," Marsh writes, but "now that I am reaching the end of my career this detachment has started to fade".
Marsh writes: "I became hardened in the way that doctors have to become hardened [but] now that I am reaching the end of my career this detachment has started to fade".
As in most metalworking techniques, the metal is periodically softened by annealing, or heating, when it has become hardened by being worked (see hardening).
You become hardened though".
People who have memories of being abducted by aliens become hardened skeptics, of a kind.
Or maybe they just have to become hardened to it in order to do their jobs?
Ireland, throughout much of its history, has become hardened to losing some of its brightest talents.
Over the years, he has become hardened to fakers and publicity-seekers.
New Jersey, which always enjoyed the reputation of an animal-friendly state, has become hardened.
A relative newcomer who is only beginning to become hardened to Washington's battles, Mr. Glauber has earned Mr. Brady's confidence.
Physicians have no opportunity to ventilate their feelings and soon become hardened to death in order to survive emotionally.
