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It was that he had all the best qualities you’d want in somebody; his heart of gold, and then you couple that with him just being hard as nails and tough, no quit ever.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 9, 2025

This time 007 was an ageing hero; older, wiser and self-deprecating but ultimately still as hard as nails.

From BBC Oct. 31, 2020

On these second-act hits, Tucker was no longer the wild and wise child; she was a full-grown romantic, who managed to be, at the same time, hard as nails.

From The New Yorker Aug. 23, 2019

Chase did it, and he did it the way he's done everything else... hard as nails.

From New York Times Oct. 11, 2015

A week later we passed the broth shack, and there was a sixty-year-old woman working there, hard as nails, dishing out consommé.

From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson




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