Sentence examples for hard steady from inspiring English sources

And he observed that "a good, hard, steady rain would help us all".

Tiesto, from the Netherlands, structured his set like a rock 'n' roll concert, often stripping away heroic melody lines to reveal the hard, steady pulse underneath.

"Hazzard is a fine, at times a superb, writer," John Banville wrote here last year, and this novel, which won a National Book Award, "has passages that shine with a hard, steady, gemlike flame".

His hard, steady glare conveys a bone-deep understanding of his thorny character, Abner Meecham, a lonely widower and self-described "80-year-old man with a bum hip and a weak heart".

Every movement, to stay alive — a very difficult thing to do historically — has to find a way to harness that initial surge of emotion and turn it to the hard, steady, un-sexy work of recruiting new members, strategizing, negotiating with those in power, keeping itself going.

You sense the impact of that decomposition in Mr. Fuchs's words and in the sagging, emptied-out faces of Mr. Richter and Ms. Paul, but this kind of glance at history is a poor substitute for a hard, steady and expansive examination.

"Sustaining it will take hard work, steady nerves and the continued ability on all sides to reach out and make difficult compromises".

But while the current "Passion Play" lacks the hard and steady assurance of its immediate predecessor, it has a gut-gnawing power that steals up on you.

It admonishes the husband to "hit hard and steady, since you don't know when you will have a second chance".

"You have decided to beat her up, then do it," the article reads, urging husbands to "hit hard and steady, since you don't know when you will have a second chance".

"It was hard staying steady and a couple of times I was getting blown," said the world number two, who also birdied the 12th to lead on five under.