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Example sentences for: steely

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So at first glance, when you consider how steely Conley had to be to rise in the field, the event that provoked her to leave sounds pretty innocuous: A colleague named Gerry Silverberg got promoted to be head of the program.
Nothing that is valued by less steely businessmen--loyalty to workers, responsibility to the community, relationships with suppliers, generosity in corporate philanthropy--matters to Dunlap.
In The Kennedy Obsession , Hellmann conducts a close reading of young Jack's personal library: the adventures of Ivanhoe and The Young Melbourne ; the steely, masculine prose of Ernest Hemingway.
This hiss, the noise level in her voice, like Glenn Gould's humming as he played the piano or the squeaking of Andrés Segovia's fingers on the strings of his guitar, makes her unusual today, when most singers are trained in the discipline of steely perfection and when our ears have become accustomed to the sharp-edged sounds of a compact disc, surrounded by undiluted digital silence.
Though brownish, the new picture is less monochromatic than the last two, and the giant space station in which it takes place is both steely and drippy, with the techno-organic feel of the belly of a beast.