Example sentences for: hard-edged

How can you use “hard-edged” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Contrary to the views of sentimentalists, a people long conditioned to satirical, hard-edged personal names like Stumbling Bear , who have suffered for five centuries the misnomer Indians and who once merrily referred to whites as Long Noses and Palefaces , are hardly likely to be mortified by Redskinsor devastated by Braves . Although currently considered the most glaring of all Indian team names, Redskins actually predates its New World usage by some twenty-five centuries or so.

  • The hard-edged playwright turns introspective with three autobiographical one-acts about his midlife crises and assimilated Judaism.

  • The Financial Times praised his radical rhetoric, but also said he failed to explain "how all this translates into hard-edged policies."

  • During the 1940s she shed the last bits of hard-edged Weimar sensibility and enacted a version of Surrealism entirely her own, dense with Ernst-like bugs and birds and creepy Matta-ish plant forms.

  • The Green Mile is an important and worthy fact of popular culture--not sophisticated, not as hard-edged or accurate or courageous as it could be, but more a part of the solution than a part of the problem.


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