He is a hard man but perhaps I can talk him around later.

He was a very hard man to get on with.

Anyone who knows him will tell you he's a hard man to talk to.

He was a very hard man, and her mother had long been dead.

People, I am not a hard man to work with.

What America and the world needed was a hard man.

He is a hard man if all reports be true.

However, you know how those big hard men sometimes get after years of success in the business.

He was a hard man to like, although I loved him.

The hard men of the past would help shape the country's future.