Sentence examples for his hardness from inspiring English sources

Sutton was renowned for his hardness, but even he has been astounded at Cooke's competitive mentality.

"I could relate to his hardness, the strength and pain in his face.

As the years past, the kingdom began to suffer a drought, for which the king blamed himself, his hardness.

Solness's staff have experienced his hardness as well as his ambivalence, and they know both to be dangerous.

Asked to identify Francis's most salient characteristic, one diplomat replied: "His hardness".Last month Francis announced a new Secretariat of the Economy to oversee the Vatican's financial affairs.

Often, when someone asked if he was Gary's brother, he said no. "I met men who wanted to know what Gary was like -- men who admired what they saw as his bravado, his hardness," he wrote.

He will become the second player after Gareth Thomas to reach the landmark and given how much Welsh supporters demand and expect from fly-halves, his longevity is a tribute to his mental hardness as well as his ability.

For Baron Cohen, Aladeen is actually one of his own victims the victim of his own hardness, the unloved man who only wants to cuddle with his consorts, such as Megan Fox (who'll have none of it) and who, through his love for Zoe, discovers the softer, better side of his own character and puts it into action, politically.

To prove his porcelain's hardness in his workshop he dropped a ring that wasn't finished on the floor and when nothing happened he smiled, almost as if he was reflecting back to his childhood accident.

This painting captures the cardinal's hardness, his exhaustion, the physical cost of his constant watchfulness and control.

"Progressive parties are always in love with their own emotional impulses," Blair writes — one of the infrequent moments where he allows a glimpse of his inner chilly hardness.