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Example sentences for: tough-guy

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In Frederic Wakeman's 1946 novel, The Hucksters , the hero, played by Clark Gable in the film version, is a tough-guy creative whiz who gives up on advertising as soon as he realizes that he's genuinely afraid of losing the big soap account.
Henry Kissinger is quoted in the LAT epitaph saying of Ehrlichman that "he was a victim of the Vietnam War and a tough-guy atmosphere in the Nixon White House."
Or perhaps the New York art world, in which Kusama ran aground, required such a tough-guy mentality to survive.