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Recent Examples of hard-edged
The Good, the Bad and the Painterly As Bouancheau fashioned a Puss that was more lyrical, like a character that stepped out of a fairy tale book and less hard-edged, all the other characters followed suit.
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Karen Idelson, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
Karen Idelson, Variety, 23 Feb. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for hard-edged
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In a stunning, unsentimental portrait of a young poet’s rural childhood, familial hardship and resilience are juxtaposed against the artistic awakening of a growing mind.—
Christian Zilko,
IndieWire,
9 Oct. 2025
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That father is Mahmood Mamdani, a political scientist known for his stringent and unsentimental view of African politics.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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Darcy goes running after Elizabeth in the rain…and then proposes to her in quite a clumsy and unromantic way?—
Marley Marius,
Vogue,
25 Mar. 2025
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Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
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The tough-minded, rigid leadership style that worked during Welch’s era doesn’t fit the needs of modern leadership, especially for younger generations who value vulnerability, authenticity, and emotional intelligence.—
Sydney Lake,
Fortune,
13 Oct. 2025
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Is the group as tough-minded without Thibodeau’s patented verve?—
Fred Katz,
New York Times,
2 Oct. 2025
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Constellation Brands — The Modelo distributor rose 2% after posting better-than-expected top- and bottom-line growth in fiscal second-quarter earnings.—
Christina Cheddar Berk,
CNBC,
7 Oct. 2025
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More than anything, the bottom-line dilemma stems from rising costs on several fronts.—
Gary Baum,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Oct. 2025
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As my colleague Charlie Warzel wrote in March, on X, the White House is now a troll account, borrowing its snide visual language and tone from some of the internet’s most cynical spaces and deploying this style to mock and dehumanize people.—
Kaitlyn Tiffany,
The Atlantic,
9 Oct. 2025
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The whole discourse was so cynical.—
Isaac Chotiner,
New Yorker,
9 Oct. 2025
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While Black Ops 6 toyed with a more grounded, back-to-the-basics approach of UAVs, airstrikes, and attack choppers as scorestreak rewards for tallying enough points or kills, the speculative fiction framework of BLOPS 7 means everything requires a heightened tone.—
Christopher Cruz,
Rolling Stone,
7 Oct. 2025
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Lee describes the show as both cosmic and grounded.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
1 Oct. 2025
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On one hand, winning another chip will be at the forefront, so managing players toward the end of the regular season would be logical.—
Stan Son,
New York Times,
17 Oct. 2025
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So adding a unit in Nashville was the next logical move.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
16 Oct. 2025
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Because we are trained to constantly analyze facts and then take a rational decision based on facts.—
Ayesha Javed,
Time,
12 Oct. 2025
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Reducing disclosures and transparency means choking off the lifeblood, which keeps investors informed and prices rational.—
Richard Torrenzano,
Fortune,
9 Oct. 2025
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“Hard-edged.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hard-edged. Accessed 18 Oct. 2025.
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