You are not hard for hardness's sake.
We will all have wrinkles but letting go of the resistance in our faces releases the hardness -- and then the look begins to soften.
Surely Apple design God Jonathan Ive has an arsenal of materials at his disposal which could coat the steel, yet retain the look, feel, transparency, and hardness of the stainless steel band.
McQueen vigorously resented the notion that his clothes were anti-women, remarking that "When you see a woman wearing McQueen, there's a certain hardness to the clothes that makes her look powerful … It kind of fends people off".
In photographs he has the presumptuous earnestness of a boarding-school boy he'd been (St. George's, 1928) and a slight hardness to his stare — the sort of look that military officers cultivate.
The other possible solution, which has been less studied, is to look for mechanisms to enhance the hardness of the oxide coating.
However, her voice tone and her look at the camera portray a hardness and defiance that contradict the submissiveness of her body posture and turn the question of the line into a challenge for her lover.
Her face had the carved hardness of that portrait, but fuller than that, for it was a face that beautifully lacked self-regard, a face that looked out at the world and understood.
All golf balls may look identical, but they vary with the hardness of the material, the thickness of the cover, the size of the core.
"I wanted the overall artistic feel to be colorful, naïve and surreal to help de-dramatize a bit the stories, so that the audience may look at them without apprehension despite the hardness of the message," he said.
