How do we move through the difficulty and hardness of our world, without ourselves becoming difficult and hard human beings?
His intelligence, the energy of his wit and his longing for love ran up against history and the hardness of the world, against the prejudices which people had about a man who was black and gay.
You are not hard for hardness's sake.
And that shows the character and hardness of the man.
Given her standing in the poetry world, the diamond-hardness of her imagery, coupled with the accessibility of her work, it's a surprise, in some ways, that she's not a household name.
In the new study, Joshua Ackerman, a psychologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, and colleagues looked at the impact of texture and hardness on how we perceive the world.
Because if we allow ourselves to become the difficulty and hardness, then instead of making the world and our lives a better place, we make it worse.
That's why Dwan's physical heroes have a pariah-like blankness, an opaque hardness that sets them apart from the world that they help to bind together.
Keeping the DIA's collection and choosing to aim for global relevance also means embracing a fundamental problem of our fractured, frenetic age: rampant meaninglessness facing so many in a world whose degrees of risk, opacity, hardness, and sheer velocity outstrip most scales.
This paper analyses the world's longest fluvial record of water hardness and calcium (Ca) concentration.
Gunn was gay but his lover's gender isn't specified, since the theme is the inclusiveness of touch: the way it breaks down the "resilient chilly hardness" we all adopt to function in the outside world.
