Sentence examples for tough mindedness from inspiring English sources

But more than just looking great in the clothes, Roberta Armani has "a tough mindedness," Shriver says, that's similar to her uncle's.

Her unsentimental tough-mindedness is legendary.

In addition, some exploratory findings involving the personality dimensions of self-control and tough-mindedness are reported.

Mr. Miyazaki's heroines tend to be plucky young women who combine guileless decency with tough-mindedness.

Is the whole issue of "experience" really a proxy for tough-mindedness?

Giuliani has addressed New Yorkers' impatience and licensed a new kind of tough-mindedness.

– with a delicacy and humour that do not obscure the tough-mindedness beneath.

She was not congratulating herself for her tact, her understanding, her tough-mindedness...

But in the dark days of 1982 it took unusual tough-mindedness.

And embracing it would require the president to display a deftness and a tough-mindedness he has rarely shown.

Somehow (and I'm not going to be able to capture this adequately), she combines extreme empathy with extreme tough-mindedness.