But in the last week, the area has become more of a hardened front line.

Thus, by thinking like a hardened target, you will become one.

But what, after all, can he expect from a hardened professional?

Even the most hardened among us must be laughing at this.

It was a bit too much even for the hardened Tony.

He's already given out my personal information to half the hardened criminals in the country.

I believe it has that effect, except on the most hardened.

Instead, the agency should go after hardened criminals, they said.

In time, she knows that you will become hardened and ambitious.

But that was long enough for them to win and break hardened hearts all over again.

"My, it is quite hardened already; I wonder what they can have been thinking, so far from land."

I wondered if those were tears in her hardened eyes.

It could have been taken for a hardened drop of paint.

But the soldiers, even ones who appear to be boys, have a hardened look about them.

College basketball's hardened general saved the last order of the day for his son.

He was just trying to get close enough to clamp hardened air around the other.

But the performance comes off as more hardened than heartfelt.

"Such hardened criminals form groups if they are allowed to stay at one place for a long time," he said.

Nor do hardened political scholars expect anything to be done.

The rest were in the street, stiff as hardened leather.

He looked more like a hardened pirate than a writer.

Only a hardened soul could dare ask such a question.

You reacted to him as if he were a hardened criminal.

Her eyes grew wide when she hit full against his hardened frame.

Not bad going that, and him supposed to be a hardened old copper.

His eyes hardened for a moment as he looked at me.

Her face hardened over again as she met my eyes.

The children in the city were hardened at an early age.

His voice had hardened as he turned back to her.

Yet he had gone without, and hardened himself in the process.

"We are going to have to get hardened up here."

She looked into the black eyes now, and felt herself harden inside.

His voice hardened a little to take on an edge.

Or perhaps his years on the field of battle had hardened him.

He looked at me with green eyes hardened by intelligence.

Both of the women were obviously hardened to their work.

She was still young, her face just beginning to harden.

Then be turned away, and his features hardened with thought.

They knew what to expect, had hardened their program against his defense.

His eyes had hardened and he no longer looked like a kid.

Her big dark eyes hardened, and she pulled away from me.

His arms hardened around me to the point of pain.

But more recently, the president has, if anything, seemed to harden his position again.

"But without getting, well, hardened like most men in your position would be."

The woman knew what she was doing, and I quickly hardened in her mouth.

I did not speak it to him, but his eyes hardened upon me.

"You want to get them up and growing, so they have time to harden off before fall."

If anything, public opposition to a war has hardened here.

Doing it now will give new growth time to harden off.

It would take time for them to harden once more.