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    Use "hard-nosed" em uma frase

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    hard-nosed


    1. It was as though he were the child and I the hard-nosed


    2. In public the old girl bristled with an imperious air of confidence and hard-nosed, old-world defiance, but Annie was convinced that her private inner sanctum would be a shambling mess of decrepitude and cat infestations, full of strange smells and unfamiliar utility furniture that dated from the middle of the previous century


    3. A couple comes in here with some medical problems, a pretty girl comes along with some reality problems and before you know it we have people hibernating in crypts in lost basins and now mechanical men from outer space! What did that girl feed you anyway? Just a few weeks ago you were a cool, hard-nosed agent, one of my best


    4. It avoids convenient or simple solutions to complex questions or easy expressions for hard-nosed assumptions that require testing, at every level; prepared to accept in whatever manner, the pretentious challenges of misleading or presumptive propositions whose attainment is (sufficient) reward in itself


    5. He nods, shuts the door on his way out, stunned and stupefied, completely giving in to your wishes, too confused to argue, as baffled as a hard-nosed scientist taking orders from a corpse


    6. Knox Ogilvie, the Russian expert and his researcher, Georgina George had both explained that many treasure hunters, most of them hard-nosed professionals, had thoroughly combed the west coast


    7. Curran was a typical, hard-nosed CIA man, and Travis wanted to be cautious


    8. What you won't find much of is hard-nosed seasonal fare


    9. He was awfully hard-nosed, but I kept going: “You’d have to look for the other piece of it, to find the boy


    10. The sales director was amazed and choked to see this open display of respect and empathy from a man who hitherto had seemed distant, aggressive and hard-nosed

    11. She wasn't quite the hard-nosed bitch she made herself out to be


    12. I lost my head as well but it was quite an achievement to win over, so fast, my hard-nosed mother


    13. The entire myth-culture and set of superstitions based upon the human assumptions of scarcity was faced with the practical hard-nosed evidence that all Nature functions on a basis of abundance and works on the basis of over-abundance


    14. “Elfi? Well, my friend, Elfi for all her short-assed, sex-maniac ways is one of the most hard-nosed and astute


    15. They are referred to more often as "hard-nosed" and "practical


    16. But Amory Gould was nothing if not hard-nosed, and was already turning slightly away from the crowd, and without looking down beginning to remove the cufflink from his rumpled but still beautiful sleeve


    17. A principal problem for analysts who choose not to rely on documents they have intensely scrutinized, especially audited financial statements, is that many analysts involved in passive investing have been defrauded or otherwise victimized, by promoters selling stories with no hard-nosed backup


    18. The latter act, keeping losses small, requires a hard-nosed realism, an appreciation for risk, a mind open to the possibility that you are wrong, and the self-discipline to stick with predetermined exit rules


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