Sentence examples for class toughness from inspiring English sources

The seaman's "working class toughness and bourgeois independence is alien and frightening... irrational and out of control".

Like some of the greatest sob sisters of the big screen — think of Barbara Stanwyck and Joan Crawford — she has a kind of working-class toughness bordering on hardness that makes the eventual cracks in her armature all the more effective.

"It's in our blood," declared Matthew Reeder, the artistic director of the BackStage Theater Company, who explained that his city has a long history of rich stage culture, due in part to Chicagoans' working-class toughness.

Working-class toughness is mocked in today's culture.

The Yankees probably hope some of Rivera's class and toughness will influence Benitez, since they are both Latin Americans who have been setup men and closers.

Like the guy or not, Senator Ferlo displayed world-class mental toughness in making that announcement.

It has been a pleasure to watch in one of the best title races in recent memory". Former Man City & Liverpool midfielder Dietmar Hamann: "They showed class and mental toughness throughout the season.

The proposed model was utilized in a parametric study to assess the influence of toughness classes of SFRC on the behaviour at serviceability limit conditions, on the load carrying capacity, and on the deformational response of SFRC round panels.

They both embody the two great wings of the party, the high-minded aspirations of the educated class and the machinelike toughness of the party apparatus.

The aim was to elucidate the origin of the high toughness of this class of polymers and to establish whether a rubber toughening mechanism is involved.

It is, as Froch remarked, a question of core toughness against world-class opposition.