Sentence examples for tough-skinned from inspiring English sources

For that reason he has a few hosting strategies: Be tough-skinned and talk smack back.

All are small, tough-skinned birds that feed chiefly on bees and wasps.

There is also, most impressively, the tough-skinned former movie star Polly Bergen as a tough-skinned former movie star who performs the show's best-known song, "I'm Still Here".

Like a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect with a too blunt pin he screwed himself into her.

The passage that won him this slight honor likened a sex act to "a lepidopterist mounting a tough-skinned insect".

A female produces a small number of tough-skinned yolk-filled eggs about 2 cm (0.8 inch) long that hatch into miniature adults.

He is tough, thick-skinned and stubborn.

Tough, thick skinned creatives who study what sells, who know their customers and who patiently wait for their turn to make it, will be rewarded.

You have to be thick-skinned, tough-minded.

"New Yorkers are thought to be very tough and thick-skinned," former Mayor Edward I. Koch said Tuesday.

"We've had to get tough and thick-skinned," adds Donmoyer.