hard sell
Example Sentences
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How is Aritzia trying to balance the hard sell and a comfortable customer experience?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
But innovation will remain a hard sell so long as users remain entranced by the big blur, where art becomes media, media becomes content, and content becomes time tossed into the wind.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2026
In a world where investors are increasingly only interested in artificial intelligence and little else, even retail winners can be a hard sell: Better prospects still often translate into worse stock performance.
From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026
You should be skeptical of companies making a hard sell.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 30, 2026
“I have my fingers crossed. But I got to tell you, landscape is a hard sell with the vuvv. They think we paint still lifes. Fruit in a bowl and stuff.”
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
