toughminded

When foggy preaching ambiguously handles the topic of social suffering, toughminded clergy bring a foghorn, exposing the policies and practices that, in part, contribute to disproportionately high levels of joblessness, foreclosures and poor health in black and brown communities.

Andrew Wilkes: Tough Minds And Tender Hearts: An Open Letter To Young Clergy Andrew Wilkes 2011

When foggy preaching ambiguously handles the topic of social suffering, toughminded clergy bring a foghorn, exposing the policies and practices that, in part, contribute to disproportionately high levels of joblessness, foreclosures and poor health in black and brown communities.

Andrew Wilkes: Tough Minds And Tender Hearts: An Open Letter To Young Clergy Andrew Wilkes 2011

Obama, in my view, is MORE toughminded and LESS starry-eyed than Edwards, because he realizes that change requires a careful, disciplined deliberate process of organization and army-building.

Edwards' New Strategy Against Obama: Who Can Best Deliver Change, A Lover Or A Fighter? 2009

In other words, it did not look like a pander to the necons of the world, but just part of a sound, toughminded guide to social responsibility and activism.

Hillary-Obama Duel For Black Votes May Be Most Intense Yet, Dems Say 2009

Despite the howls of betrayal that will undoubtedly emanate from the right, Obama is pursuing a toughminded course that is both in the moral and strategic interest of America.

Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Bold Iran Move 2009

Intelligent, toughminded public policies can help achieve greater domestic tranquillity.

Raising Cain On Values 2008

Peter's two acknowledged masters were Frost and Hardy: from Frost, whom he knew well as a young writer, he took to heart the enterprise of breathing new life into colloquial American speech; from Hardy, a sly way of mixing toughminded irony with a tender regard for mortal longings.

A Life's Work 2005

Peter's two acknowledged masters were Frost and Hardy: from Frost, whom he knew well as a young writer, he took to heart the enterprise of breathing new life into colloquial American speech; from Hardy, a sly way of mixing toughminded irony with a tender regard for mortal longings.

A Life's Work 2005

Peter's two acknowledged masters were Frost and Hardy: from Frost, whom he knew well as a young writer, he took to heart the enterprise of breathing new life into colloquial American speech; from Hardy, a sly way of mixing toughminded irony with a tender regard for mortal longings.

A Life's Work 2005

Jack Turner handles his subject with discernment and confidence, his style appropriately brisk and animated … Impressive and reassuring is his combination of sympathetic understanding and toughminded rationalism.

Spice: Summary and book reviews of Spice by Jack Turner. 2004