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If adjectives soften ethnic terms, nouns can harden them.
The authorities visit every horror upon the narrators--sexual assault, beatings, isolation, psychological torture--at which point the narrators harden.
First, these rules harden public attitudes toward everyone accused of a crime.
In some ways they don't gel, in others they harden into cement.
In short, Quindlen is a sentimentalist, which is not an insult in Culturebox's book, since to harden one's heart to sentimentalism is to take oneself beyond the reach of much of American culture.