Sentence examples for hard opening from inspiring English sources

And in "The Piano," from "White Chalk," she seemed to play up the juxtaposition of her softened voice and that hard opening line: "Hit her with a hammer/Teeth smashed in".

On the menu for the 14-syllable J.P.Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race is a forecast 25-knot south-westerly wind, which will mean a hard opening beat down to the Needles at the west end of the island and then a nerve-wrangling sleigh ride along the southern side of the island.

They have got a big squad of 24 or 25 players and it will certainly be a hard opening test but something that we will relish.

In the most striking example, a German conservative, Edmund Stoiber, has ridden these issues of economic and personal insecurity hard, opening up a small but persistent lead of 3 percentage points in the opinion polls over the incumbent chancellor, Gerhard Schröder of the Social Democrats.

That sales trajectory has become more common in recent years, as record companies have pushed hard for a strong opening week at the expense of future sales, said Geoff Mayfield, Billboard's director of charts.

And audiences bit hard: its opening day ($15.9m) more than doubled Lost in Thailand's ($6.25m), a sleeper hit that wound up China's most successful local film.

The government must hold its nerve, for what is at stake is not just where India buys its onions, but whether it is able to make hard choices.The opening, announced on November 24th, is only partial.

PC Zone said, "It's hard, its opening acts don't match the quality of those which follow and some characters grate but as a modern rendition of a traditional formula, The Angel Of Death has both pointed and clicked wisely.

"We were working hard, creating openings and obviously when you have somebody like Berba (Dimitar Berbatov) in the team, he is always going to create chances.

Theorists of narrative often point out that the hard-working opening paragraphs of a novel must briskly transform a person who is not reading into one who is.

But it remains unclear whether this is a firm position or a hard-line opening designed to appease deputies in the Bundestag, the German Parliament, and from which — as in previous negotiations — Berlin will compromise.