Sentence examples for tough formula from inspiring English sources

So, OK, it's a tough formula to replicate.

After a few years of not reading Carver, in my memory I had boiled his writing down to a tough-guy formula: drunk in ratty apartment faces loss of wife/child/innocence, is redeemed by tiny concluding sentence.

Like "Girlfight," this movie, directed by Stephen Daldry from a script by Lee Hall, anchors its melodramatic formula in tough, heartfelt realism.

"I said, 'Yeah, I was lucky.' " Perhaps, but lucky and tough is a winning formula that is taking the Tigers back to Texas.

Though the outcome is predictable, Stephen Daldry's film, A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times, "anchors its melodramatic formula in tough, heartfelt realism".

Further, the state relies on income taxes rather than property taxes for most of its revenues, a difficult formula in tough times.

The group's later hits, such as "I'm Crying," "We Gotta Get out of This Place," and "It's My Life," developed a formula of tough, dramatic, hard-driving rock shaped by an awareness of folk music and the blues, but the departure of Price in 1965 and Burdon a year later put a premature end to the story.

The latest G-Unit release, Tony Yayo's "Thoughts of a Predicate Felon," gives this template (or formula) its toughest test yet.

They really were "ordinary" objects until the couple coated them in what looks like bronze, but is actually their secret formula for a tough type of polymer.

Some alleged there was another part to the Trump formula: Make it tough for black people to move in.

The litany of incidents underlined Suzuka's well deserved reputation as one of Formula 1's toughest tests, but there were no major incidents in the 90-minute session.