Many of them are convicted drug traffickers and other hardened criminals. The cells are strict — mostly hardened trailers — that cost about $40,000 each to build. Years of reporting on wars have hardened him against human suffering. Why have you caused us to depart from your ways, O Lord; Why have you hardened our hearts, lest we fear you? She reportedly told them, “Sophie Lyons is a hardened criminal and too smart to be caught like that.” Forsyth seems to have hardened his line towards (=his attitude to) Europe. A titan of comedy who has always been the center of attention, amusing even the hardest cynics with his manic energy. He tries to break even the most hardened cynics against their rules against printing at this time of year. A hardened merchant once came with a truck of cold tea bottles near a large gathering of men. You may pretend you don`t care about the Oscars, but even the most diehard souls secretly get excited about their glamour. Even Haggard, as tough as he was, didn`t light his cigar for a good twenty minutes. They sit on data that, given Google`s hardened stance on user-level tracking, is increasingly seen as essential to advertising.

I am also troubled by China`s hardening of its new superpower status. The hardcore devils of Anzacs, who had sought refuge among the shells built from piles of supplies, roared with laughter. And they didn`t listen to me, nor bow their ears, but hardened their necks and did worse than their fathers. A generation of Syrian children has the distant gaze of battle-hardened soldiers returning from war.