Sentence examples for the firmness needed from inspiring English sources

This would be the firmness needed for a rare steak.

Generous when generosity was called for, firm - sometimes even brutally so - when he felt firmness was needed, he was an astute leader and masterly negotiator.

This was a sign both of official Europe's weakness in defence of free speech but also, for some Americans, of a godless continent's failure to understand the depth of other people's faith.In running their economies, observes Charles Kupchan, one of Washington's veteran Europe-watchers, the Europeans know what is needed but lack the firmness to do the right thing.

But when we used the tiny sponge to blend eyeshadow or apply concealer beneath the eyes, that same firmness gave us the precision we needed.

His family could not afford to send him to university, so he began work as a clerk for Bristol corporation, where he handled complaints and learned the tact and firmness that he needed in later life.

From the urinary, bowel and sexual domain, a single representative item was selected: the need for urinary pads, the frequency of loose stool and the firmness of the erections, respectively.

The main usefulness of the TruFirm device, Pringle explained, is that by measuring the firmness of a green it can help course officials determine whether or not and how often the surface needs to be watered.

The firmness had a pretended note.

But the firmness of those religious instructions is an illusion.

But Dr. Boden said the ideal mattress was one that could "adjust the firmness, rather than committing to one firmness".

I wasn't expecting the firmness to be that soft.