Now, unsettled by polling that shows the candidates with equal support from black voters, Mr. Thompson is pushing back, releasing a tough, deeply personal ad in which he draws a stark connection between the stop-and-frisk debate and his own identity, saying, "I've lived it".
I went to work at The New Yorker on Friday and helped close a new issue that includes a deeply reported and tough-minded Letter from Washington, by Nicholas Schmidle, about the Michael Flynn affair, as well as a Comment by George Packer that notes that Trump, at his press conference, "behaved like the unhinged leader of an unstable and barely democratic republic".
In its split personality, the homestead is an oddly fitting kind of public art for a tough but deeply wounded city like Detroit.
Its "résonance", and that of his highly wrought, intellectually tough and deeply passionate music, will undoubtedly ring on through the 21st century and beyond.
WANTED: man of God; good at languages; preferably under 75; extensive pastoral experience; no record of covering up clerical sex abuse, deeply spiritual and, mentally, tough as old boots.
Although no party took a majority in elections last Sunday, forcing the attempts to form unity governments, Syriza did well enough to begin to change the debate over the tough and deeply unpopular austerity measures approved to win foreign aid.
Gilchrist partly attributes his ethical approach to cricket - walking when he knew he was out, for instance - to the fact that he used to play grade cricket alongside his tough but deeply moral father, Stan, a schoolteacher.
This book is angry and tough and deeply, viscerally unsettling, not least because Oates seems determined to explore the idea that the bereaved wife is a kind of guilty party, a victim who in some way deserves everything (and it's usually a violent "everything") that comes her way.
"I can tell you the report is extremely thorough, brutally tough and deeply troubling," Barra said.
The best Winnipeggers can apparently hope for is a spattering of very vague commitment to improve transit and affordable housing with the mayoral spot soon to be claimed by either a deeply uninspiring neoliberal or "tough on crime" suburbanite.
