most hard-nosed

"Dead City" is very interesting because I find it to be the grittiest one, the most hard-nosed.

And professional frauds such as Trump and former aide Kellyanne Conway know that if you string your lies together in a flurry of falsehood, even the most hard-nosed journalist has trouble getting the discussion back to the first lie in the string.

It is not, though, the move that most hard-nosed, unapologetically ruthless businesses would make.

Even in a state at the center of some of the most hard-nosed fights over voting, it was a stunning series of events.

Truculent unions—which cheered the failed sale—mean even the most hard-nosed buyer would have a hard time carrying out the restructuring the authorities admit is necessary.