Sentence examples for hard kernel from inspiring English sources

Though tragedy -- death -- has a hard kernel within it, and eventually we simply deal.

As satire, to be sure, but satire must have a hard kernel of truth to count.

His speech had a hard kernel of advice, though: do not try to fight Russia.

Each small, pealike fruit has a hard kernel surrounding one seed.

"The eroticized vision of the East carries a hard kernel of truth," he reports from the trenches, "which the followers of Said are loath to acknowledge".

(Bernstein challenges the premise of Edward Said's "Orientalism," arguing that "the eroticized vision of the East carries a hard kernel of truth, which the followers of Said are loath to acknowledge").

"It's not like we're dealing with hard kernels of truth here," I said pitiably.

Last summer, his titles for Verdi's "Nabucco" did just what Mr. Conklin (a longtime colleague) said they should, sifting sometimes opaque Italian for hard kernels of motivation.

But these crisp little nuggets are less like the hard kernels at the bottom of your popcorn bowl and more like corn nuts.

"When I spoke French at school, the teachers used to hit me on the end of my fingers with a ruler, or made me kneel on the floor on hard kernels of corn," said Loretta Jambone, 58, of Galliano.

The dessert, a creamy yogurt, was topped with elderberry syrup and something I'd never heard of: erdmandeln, or earth almonds, small, hard kernels with a coconutlike flavor that made me think of the tropics, but which, the chef-cum-waitress explained, were actually native to Europe.