How To Use Hard-bitten In A Sentence
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We began with Deadline U.S.A., a film that is not strictly noir but according to Eddie has the power to make every hard-bitten city desk jockey “puddle up.”
VinceKeenan.com
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Forty hard-bitten lifers waited for the guard Barnum to go to sleep on his shift.
Chapter 2
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Conservatives, meanwhile, are buzzing over the cover story in the current Weekly Standard, in which Mark Hemingway argues that fact-checking as practiced by PolitiFact -- as well as by the Associated Press, the Washington Post and others -- is just old-fashioned liberal media bias gussied up in the cloak of hard-bitten objectivity.
Dan Kennedy: PolitiFact and the Limits of Fact-Checking
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We join the story in the Deep South where Carl's father is a hard-bitten sharecropper on a miserable dirt farm, trudging behind a team of mules in the summer swelter, pushing a hand plow.
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The rumour-mongers have portrayed me as a hard-bitten political adventuress devoid of all human feeling.
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The cops investigating the ‘love killer’ aren't the hard-bitten, cynical flatfoots one expects in a noir.
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And each meeting meant a drink; and there was much to talk about; and more drinks; and songs to be sung; and pranks and antics to be performed, until the maggots of imagination began to crawl, and it all seemed great and wonderful to me, these lusty hard-bitten sea - rovers, of whom I made one, gathered in wassail on a coral strand.
Chapter 16
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Callan was brought to ill-natured life by actor Edward Woodward, who added a complex moral dimension to the hard-bitten killer, whose life on the edge of society leaves him little room for a personal life.
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Her penetrating soprano lacked a modicum of sensuality for the final opera's antiheroine, but she suggested a hard-bitten gold-digger effectively.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands.
THE TERRIBLE SOLOMONS
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And each meeting meant a drink; and there was much to talk about; and more drinks; and songs to be sung; and pranks and antics to be performed, until the maggots of imagination began to crawl, and it all seemed great and wonderful to me, these lusty hard-bitten sea - rovers, of whom I made one, gathered in wassail on a coral strand.
Chapter 16
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Scriptwriters insist on depicting reporters as unscrupulous, hard-bitten hacks who'd sooner sell their granny than miss out on a scoop.
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The protagonist in ‘The Shield’ is Vic Mackey, who is a hard-bitten, tough street cop brilliant essayed by Michael Chiklis.
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The spectacle of the carnival is a momentary illusion for the fairgoer, and for the hard-bitten men who must strike the tents and hit the road for another town soon, it is just a job.
The Carnival Barker: Recalling a Dying Art
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The hard-bitten cynic and skeptic smiles with inward pride when his friends chuckle over his well-wrought and ironic disdain for conventional pieties.
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A reassuring assortment of hard-bitten men in sportscoats and gold-chained gangstas frowned at the tables.
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Picture it to yourself -- a hard-bitten, joy-loving sea-cuny, irresponsible, unaware ever of past or future, wining and dining with kings, the accepted lover of a princess, and with brains like Hamel's and Yunsan's to do all planning and executing for me.
Chapter 15
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And since its hard-bitten goaltender turned in three shutouts in the first round, the team's fans have turned rabid in the heat.
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The result is a simultaneously entertaining and instructional story that should help even the most hard-bitten bargainers do a better job of getting the things they want.
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Abu Ghraib, a hard-bitten town surrounded by lush farmland, is one of the trouble spots for American soldiers facing fierce challenges from both Sunni Muslim insurgents and radical Shi'ite militiamen.
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The closest we ever seem to come is the Mulder and Scully clones populating TV, the mystical touchy-feely men paired with hard-bitten rational women.
Emasculation not required at SF Novelists
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Oh, well, the sailors for'ard may be hard-bitten, but I can promise Miss West that here, aft, is one male passenger, unmarried and never married, who is an equally hard-bitten adventurer on the sea of matrimony.
CHAPTER XV
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Especially when the greying crims could only be called hard-bitten if they'd managed to apply their denture fixative that morning.
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This volume of gonzo musings completes the “accidental trilogy” begun in Blood Orchid and continued in Blues for Cannibals, offering more scorched-earth prophesying by the hard-bitten Bowden, a journalistic iconoclast in the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson, Edward Abbey, and James Agee.
Cover to Cover
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Today, it wears international renown with hard-bitten modesty.
Times, Sunday Times
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Although it ditches the politically-charged setting - instead we are given the softer side of these hard-bitten cons - it is lighter and more amusing.
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The rumour-mongers have portrayed me as a hard-bitten political adventuress devoid of all human feeling.
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This hard-bitten Philadelphia holster maker operates a classic one-man-shop specializing in extremely well-made and practically designed carry rigs.
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And since its hard-bitten goaltender turned in three shutouts in the first round, the team's fans have turned rabid in the heat.
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Although it ditches the politically-charged setting - instead we are given the softer side of these hard-bitten cons - it is lighter and more amusing.
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This particular murder case was so horrific that it shocked even the most hard-bitten of New York police officers.
