Sentence examples for hardened language from inspiring English sources
The Abkhazian government's hardened language speaks of the official calculation to date: Washington will back the young Georgian president only so far.
But the Korangalis, a hardened and isolated people with their own language, have managed to lock the American Army into a bloody standoff for a small space for more than three years.
The get-up confused some because he was, in language and behaviour, more like a hardened sailor in a Herman Melville novel, dumped by his captain in an English port.
The offensive language one is also amusing: Suddenly hardened criminals are offended by the words "fuck" and "shit".
That means stronger sea walls, natural barriers, hardened power grids, hardened water systems, hardened fuel supplies".
She worries about a recent debate over language in the draft constitution that Islamist purists want hardened to make sure judges use Shariah, or Islamic law.
Allen & Unwin; 228 pages; A$29.95Set in the Australian Outback and written in a taut poetic style perfectly suited to the hardened characters who inhabit it, "Other Country" is unusual for the language of its landscape.
Crude, rude and with more foul language than a Gordon Ramsay marathon, this smutty staple could give even the most hardened Francophobe a few guilty giggles.
"I got hardened," he said.
Hardened beyond their years?
