hard-driving
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In 2006, NBCUniversal Television Group’s then-CEO Jeff Zucker was, by his own assessment, a “ratings-obsessed, hard-driving entertainment executive.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
He’s a risk-taker, a hard-driving boss and a tireless worker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
The original movie, which was based on the best-selling 2003 novel of the same name, focused on the world of Miranda Priestly, the hard-driving, taste-making editor of the fictional Runway magazine.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 28, 2026
The hard-driving presence of bandleader and narrator Jeb Brown suffuses the production with Americana authenticity, vibrantly maintained by music director Rebekah Bruce and music supervisor Dean Sharenow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025
A man in an elegant red cardinal's robe and a high lace collar stood resting against an enormous Bible and now began to lead a hard-driving hymn which the congregation shouted in the unknown tongue.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
