And he wiped away a tear, this tough, self-made retailer.
They have gone it alone for years and want nothing to destroy their tough self-reliance.
Like many authors, Williams wasn't adept at expressing himself outside of his work, but he sometimes evinced a startling degree of tough self-awareness.
If Ashley can't settle on a target of her anger it's perhaps because, as Mr. Riker suggests, that would force her to face tough self-truths.
If one finds himself even considering such a false mindset, such a betrayal of tough self-evaluative honesty, he will scoff at it in the next sentence.
Polls show that even some of Mr. Giuliani's supporters have reservations about his pugnacious temperament -- the tough, self-righteous image of his own making.
Spencer Ludwig, the arty, ineffectual filmmaker son of a tough self-made businessman and Holocaust survivor, finally gets to feel stronger than his heroic father, who is dying.
In "The Interpreter" he walks like a tough, self-contained, gun-toting Secret Service officer — in other words, like most guys in movies walk.
During an evening out two-stepping at Gilley's, Bud meets Sissy, a tough, self-reliant young woman who hangs out at the bar.
