Sentence examples for plain tough from inspiring English sources

"He was just plain tough," Reynolds Ferguson said.

Tactical errors, maybe, but also plain tough luck.

Let them eat maize husks Japan unplugged Tough love, or plain tough?

"I was destined to be a new chapter, a plain, tough Israeli, fair-haired and free from Jewish neuroses and excessive intellectualism," he recalled in the essay "An Autobiographical Note," which appeared in his 1975 collection, "Under This Blazing Light".

Angela's best weapon, Loren suggests, is that she's just plain tough.

The Democrats are hoping to make the Senate ironclad by winning a 60-40 majority, which would let them break any Republican filibuster.The Senate map, for the Republicans, is an ugly mix of tough circumstances, plain bad luck and troubled candidates.

As Podhoretz noted, "the poetry last night was muscular, forthright, plain and tough — deliberately and painstakingly so".

As Podhoretz noted, "the poetry last night was muscular, forthright, plain and tough — deliberately and painstakingly so.'' If the Democrats are the "Daddy party" and the Republicans are the "Mommy party," the columnist went on, "this was the most Republican speech Barack Obama has ever given".