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  • The Australian author John Flanagan seems to have his finger on this pulsing anxiety; it certainly explains the enormous success of his recently concluded "Ranger's Apprentice" series, in which young warriors in an alternate Viking society grow to maturity under the hard-eyed and sometimes wise-cracking guidance of adult mentors.

    In Brief: Children's Books 2011

  • The mother is played by Lubna Azabal with hard-eyed ferocity she was also the best thing about the drearily arty HERE, my fifth film of the day.

    Marshall Fine: Live From Sundance 2011: Day 2 Marshall Fine 2011

  • Gone is Angry Lance, the hard-eyed, hard-bitten competitor who often argued with the media and fans and cut an image of remoteness and inaccessibility.

    Upbeat Armstrong 'a good bloke' in return to cycling 2009

  • Even if Harbaugh's hard-eyed intensity can be a little grating, it's tough to bicker with the result.

    San Francisco Is Very Hard to Hate Jason Gay 2012

  • With her hard-eyed stares and dead-soul demeanor, there's no one meaner on TV.

    Watercooler: The Best Revenge 2011

  • The mother is played by Lubna Azabal with hard-eyed ferocity she was also the best thing about the drearily arty HERE, my fifth film of the day.

    Marshall Fine: Live From Sundance 2011: Day 2 Marshall Fine 2011

  • I turned, trying to send a hard-eyed stare toward the fools.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • I turned, trying to send a hard-eyed stare toward the fools.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Or, the other one where bikini-clad, hard-eyed Euro-hos jump right out at you in the street, grab you by the arm, and squeal, Hiyeee!

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Within moments, the world exploded in furious debate over 38 minutes worth of hard-eyed Baghdad gunfire and death back in 2007.

    Phil Bronstein: The Wikileaks Incident: How Social Media has Changed Warfare Coverage 2010

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