Sentence examples for harder man from inspiring English sources
The personal tragedies, in Mr. Ricketts's view, made Kipling "a sadder and a harder man" and are causes of the dark bluster that came in his later years.
As for General Mofaz, Mr. Schiff said, "The chief of staff is a harder man, but he's not the only voice".
Ellington not infrequently takes out a pad of music-manuscript paper, fishes in his pockets for the stub of a lead pencil, and begins composing, and Boyd departs, complaining to the world that "Ellington is a hard man to get to bed and a harder man to get out of it".
He can't help noting the death of Kipling's first child, Josephine, in 1899, but does not explore the claim by Kipling's sister that he was afterwards a "harder man," or test the connection between that hardening and the simultaneous stiffening of Kipling's political beliefs.
But in nearly three months of trial proceedings, a harder man has emerged — alert, vigorous, with a self-confidence that has begun to shade into condescension as he corrects a lawyer or a witness about details of his life as the chief torturer of the Khmer Rouge.
By the time he ran and won the presidential nomination in 2008, he'd become a harder man.
But both leaders are losing ground to harder men.
"His damned hard man, McBogle".
