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iron-jawed

[ahy-ern-jawd] / ˈaɪ ərnˈdʒɔd /


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Damien Chazelle’s film about the iron-jawed, ice-water-in-the-veins pilot and astronaut Neil Armstrong is a rocket pointed directly at the distant planet known as Awards Season.

From The Guardian Oct. 15, 2018

His face is stolid, meaty, neither iron-jawed nor glamorously gaunt.

From Time Feb. 9, 2012

The U.S. talent for epithet is flaunted in: "The man who would change the name of Arkansas is the original, iron-jawed, brass-mounted, copper-bellied corpse-maker from the wilds of the Ozarks."

From Time Magazine Archive

To the galaxy of correspondents and photographers gruff, iron-jawed Communist Party Agent Konstantin Giorgevich Petrov was introduced as "the man who discovered Stakhanov."

From Time Magazine Archive

Thomas jumped as a terrible crash sounded right outside their door, accompanied by screams and the splintering of wood, like some iron-jawed monster was eating the entire stairwell.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner




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