Some of the news reporting prompted delight among the more extreme anti-immigration voices on Twitter (even to hardened eyes, to respond to this death by typing tweets such as "Can't they show it happening I would enjoy watching it one less to worry about" goes beyond the normal parameters of nastiness).
Segel and Mara make an enchanting pair, their hardened eyes softening as a kinship grows.
Miss Fleming's sweet performance of this song almost brought a tear to your hardened reporter's eye.
Nevertheless, on January 30th it wasn't just hardened statisticians whose eyes were out on stalks.
Fish will get inspired, laying out what will happen in the first few days, the weeks after, every move for years: first, a different apartment in a new city, away from the therapist fuckups in Bakersfield who keep prescribing things for Adam, then a menial job while doing some kind of night school, and finally a woman, older, hardened but warm, eyes that could love and kill.
His eyes are hardened and inscrutable.
In the 150-year history of cocktails, women's drinks were long ridiculed as cloying and frilly, ordered with a giggle while hardened bartenders rolled their eyes.
Pet grief stories have poured in from all quarters – tears well in the eyes of hardened lawyers, TV journalists, postmen and shopowners as they are reminded of their own pet losses and eagerly share their stories about their departed Rufus, Holly, Megan and Rex.
The oppression showed in their tight smiles, and in the hardened stares behind their eyes.
The problem is that "authentic" images of black women are relegated to a few standards that have been playing out in the American cultural psyche for centuries -- the hardened, quick to anger, eye- and neck-rolling Sapphire, sassy beloved maids, mammie and black bestie, the hyper-sexual man-eater bopping to a modern beat as the video ho, the long suffering mamas.
