tough-mindedness

Like many American playwrights, Ms. Cho pays the rent by writing for TV, and I wonder whether her work on HBO 's "Big Love" might be nudging her away from the tough-mindedness one expects from a properly promising young playwright.

Too Cute for Words Terry Teachout 2010

` ` We reminded our team that we have been against styles like that and it requires a lot of tough-mindedness and patience. ''

USATODAY.com 2008

At any rate, McDaniels appreciates Tebow's tough-mindedness.

Tim Tebow Readies To Run The Ball At Broncos Camp 2010

The brilliance of this feature-length debut by a veteran Israeli journalist, Shlomi Eldar, lies in its tough-mindedness.

Thin Air, Rich Fare 2010

There are few examples of real tough-mindedness in the book, and most of them involve Mrs. Carter.

Days of ‘Malaise’ 2009

There are few examples of real tough-mindedness in the book, and most of them involve Mrs. Carter.

Days of ‘Malaise’ 2009

It requires vision and patience, vigilance and tough-mindedness.

Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Iraq: To Move Forward, We Must Look Back 2009

It requires vision and patience, vigilance and tough-mindedness.

Iraq: To Move Forward, We Must Look Back 2009

To go to a cricket match today to watch the West Indies, requires another mindset — a deeply honed sense of irony, self-deprecation and tough-mindedness.

Cricket, Lovely Cricket : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

This tough-mindedness marked the best of her postwar films, "Witness for the Prosecution" (1958) and especially Orson Welles's "Touch of Evil" (1958), in which her role as a hard-boiled madam seemed like a sardonic elegy to her past.

The Death Of A Goddess 2008