hard-driving
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He’s a risk-taker, a hard-driving boss and a tireless worker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
“A half-hour of hard-driving rock led straight into mid-tempo sludge like ‘Fingerprint File,’ a pointless but not purposeless exercise whose supposed function was to prove that Jagger could play guitar competently.”
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
It carried a searching air before giving way to a drum solo and then to a brief, hard-driving suggestion of an entirely new song.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 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
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
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