Sentence examples for game of hard from inspiring English sources

Inflation makes a fool's game of hard work and frugality.

In certain scenarios, a man believes (or hopes) I'm playing an elaborate game of hard to get, that the whole charade will culminate one night in a seedy, sweaty, up-against-the-wall scene out of "Road House," starring himself as a young Patrick Swayze.

Of all the luxury bath brands being wooed by hotels, Kiehl's is playing the best game of hard to get: Its products are only in eight hotels, including the Soho and Tribeca Grand hotels in New York, XV Beacon in Boston and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles.

But the overall effect, like any good game of hard-to-get, keeps us rapt.

The EU, he said, was playing a "pathetic game of hard-to-get"; it had, after all, "crawled back in disgrace" to Tehran after the start of the Rushdie crisis.

Sasha Cagen, the author of "Quirkyalone," wrote her book after being, as she said, "thoroughly messed up by 'The Rules,' " the best seller that advised women to play the old-fashioned game of hard-to-get.

This game of hard-knuckle religious politics is all too recognizable in our new millennium, when there are products to be sold and votes to be won by pandering to church-going Americans.

And although there were bold animal prints played in scale on a computer, there was little in the game of hard-and-soft, like a tailored coat teamed with a wisp of fluttering chiffon, to link this collection of wearable separates to the energetic wired world.

By John McKernan The New Yorker, June 7 , 1976P. 46 A quarter buys two games of hard pinball View Article By Anthony Lane By Rebecca Mead By Alan Burdick By Larissa MacFarquhar.

On Tinder you have to game kind of hard and be a little bit aggressive.

This weekend the role of Lone Ranger will be played by Jesse Hogan but if his teammates need any extra motivation for this one they could look no further than milestone man Nathan Jones, who brings up 200 games of hard-nosed service for his club.