Sentence examples for how hard won from inspiring English sources
If there's anything that the gush of memoirs over the last 15 years should teach writers, it's that celebrating one's own fulfillment (no matter how hard won) smacks of self-satisfaction.
As the book zips along, it's interesting to watch the two detectives at work — the old-school, rather violent Chadwick, who likes a fast result, no matter how hard won, and the mellower Banks, who doesn't mind mulling things over.
Messrs Welch and Branson devote much of their books to selling themselves as heroes, whereas Mr Broad's tendency to state the facts and move on often undersells how challenging a life he has led, and how hard won have been his triumphs.
Knowing how hard winning promotion to the Premier League is, I think he should be given a full season to try to keep him there.
But the author does show how hard-won such moments are.
The label stuck for a long time but this exhibition should go a long way to revealing how hard-won Miro's apparent playfulness was.
His many poems about objects suggest how hard-won the ordinary seems, visible only through the scrim of his psychologizing imagination: With a sigh the elevators begin to rise in high blocks delicate as porcelain.
As people have grown accustomed to the benign economic conditions that central banks have helped to create, they have forgotten just how hard-won the victory over inflation was.
Not about her sobriety about how hard-won it was, how necessary to her survival as both a writer and a woman but about the value of a story that isn't unique at all.
This is how hard-won access to basic dignity becomes a "special" right in the eyes of those who've always had it – and sometimes especially those who have forgotten when they didn't.
At the end of a reign as sustained and successful as his, it can be easy to forget how hard-won the initial victories were, how unlikely the domination that followed.
