Sentence examples for hard maturity from inspiring English sources

They thus acquire personality traits that they can apply to their education (a competitive spirit, a willingness to work hard, maturity, etc).. Furthermore, the environment of each child differs for reasons related to the family structure and to socio-economic conditions.

And perhaps the more literary films of his middle period, "The Color Purple" and "Empire of the Sun," struck voters (as they struck some critics) as too earnest, straining too hard after maturity and respectability.

The endocarp, which encases the seed, is brown or black and very hard at maturity.

Not until Boys does the hard-won maturity lift, the frivolousness take over and a strong tune kick in.

A permanent home is a sign of hard-fought maturity; it demands that an organization be understood on its own terms.

Serious: The Autobiography by John McEnroe 346pp, Little, Brown, £17.99 Here are two stories not in Serious, John McEnroe's autobiographical tale of hard-won maturity.

He more or less raised himself and came to terms with his Oedipal demons on his own, and he radiates a hard-won maturity.

Ms. Aniston provides a gentle, thoughtful performance, just as last season in "Friends" she gave Rachel a thorny, hard-won maturity and did her best work on the show; it's been a very good year for her.

While Ray's personal appeal is enough to get us over these narrative humps, it would be nice to see more of his hard-won maturity next time out.

The genre is so familiar to local artists that small town or rural coming of age stories – teen tragedies involving extreme lapses of judgment en route to hard-won maturity – have become something of a cliche.

Although Shapcott excelled in her earlier incarnation, picking up the Forward prize in 1999 for her third collection, My Life Asleep, and becoming the only poet to win the National Poetry Competition twice, there's a hard-won maturity to her latest poems, coupled with a new and deep attentiveness, that lifts them above anything she has so far written.