The message, instead, is that work requirements are good for people who live in hard-bitten cities and bad for those who live in hard-bitten counties.
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The judges gave Panpayak the win after five hard-bitten rounds.
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Be warned: It is likely to induce stifled sobs in even hard-bitten stoics.
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The story makes clear that Brokeback Mountain is a treacherous environment for hard-bitten men.
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It was becoming the hard-bitten journalistic profession that you may be familiar with at VICE.
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It plays to a kind of hard-bitten realism, but it creates a box around hope,
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"I have worked on this for a long time", she said, without quite sounding hard-bitten.
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Ms. Min plays the traditional pipa and other Chinese lutes with a hard-bitten, unflinching power.
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Is some of what happens a shade too precious for the more hard-bitten New Yorker?
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Among institutions, sources of demand have moved beyond charitable foundations to hard-bitten pension funds and insurers.
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Her character, Erin Bell, is a hard-bitten detective in the Raymond Chandler or Dashiell Hammett mode.
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He plays a hard-bitten 90-year-old atheist in the movie, which also stars Mr. Lynch.
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It, too, boasts a handful of excellent performances, in particular Ed Harris as a hard-bitten police detective.
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Paterson, a densely packed, hard-bitten city of 210,000, is a heroin hub for a swarm of suburbs.
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But Pike, 39, just doesn't read as a hard-bitten American woman who was 56 when she died.
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This hard-bitten and resourceful Iranian regime is not going to issue that kind of declaration of surrender.
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A writer (named Tucholsky) and his girlfriend, Lydia, both hard-bitten city dwellers, vacation in the Swedish countryside.
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So was she: an anti-academic, chattily entertaining prose that read as both hard-bitten and strangely needy.
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They're after something saccharine — which is not a quality the hard-bitten cynics of my motherland are known for.
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Macron's second-round opponent was Marine Le Pen , the hard-bitten dynast of the racist, xenophobic far-right Front National.
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Surging momentum and full-blossom harmonies coexist happily in this group, which vests Mr. Pope's compositions with a hard-bitten beauty.
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Salah Abdelkhalig, a hard-bitten veteran of Sudan's many wars, assured the protesters they had nothing to fear from the military.
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It's an interesting film because it's a Western with these hard-bitten men who become more vulnerable the longer you watch them.
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Margot Robbie stars as Harding, but it's Allison Janney as Harding's hard-bitten, chain-smoking mother LaVona who really steals the show.
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Furiosa, the road warrior who escapes with five war brides in hopes of finding freedom, is, fittingly, a more hard-bitten character.
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An untested whizkid shoots to power as President in his very first election campaign, crumpling older, hard-bitten veterans in his wake.
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Even the hard-bitten police lieutenant in charge of the fictionalized case is shaken by the singular brutality of the unknown killer.
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On Tuesday in Fuyang, the air quality there was poor, but not terrible by the hard-bitten standards of many Chinese cities.
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It is understandable why this embattled and hard-bitten leader does not want to countenance another setback and the consequences it would spawn.
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Scorning NAFTA may please some hard-bitten protectionists in the country, but is no policy for economic success nor reducing the trade deficit.
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But unlike McGee, an Army veteran, Stroby's hard-bitten hero was once a soldier of fortune with a more flexible code of ethics.
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"I just could not take it anymore," she said in an interview in Gafsa, the hard-bitten Tunisian mining town where she lives.
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It might be tempting to think that President Trump's border wall represents a more accurate, hard-bitten assessment of how the world works.
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He proceeds to hide himself and his family far away from the Empire — with the help of a hard-bitten rebel called Saw Gererra.
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Even hard-bitten journalists who accuse the spokesman of lying or defending the indefensible during his news conferences have expressed shock at the slight.
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There was a lot of turmoil, and out of that came this hard-bitten kind of writing, and Sam was a part of that.
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Her companionship is from this hard-bitten maid who is so punitive at every turn — and that's her family, that's the person she lived with.
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She has to be breathy and seductive, but is Eddie any less constrained by the expectations of the hard-bitten private eye role he's playing?
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The other belongs to the man's hard-bitten ex, a saleswoman at Saks resentfully catering to the spoiled matrons who used to be her peers.
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"Rancher, Farmer, Fisherman," about conservationists in the Americans heartland, starts with a hard-bitten Montanan working to prevent development, to the outrage of some locals.
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Life-or-death suspense is built into the existence of its young characters, and even the hard-bitten Danish soldier who oversees them develops sympathy.
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A hard-bitten professional campaign consultant, hopping cross-country flights to snag rich donors, might find the crowd at the Union Jack Pub a little homespun.
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Even I have to admit it was nice to see hard-bitten reporters express thanks to their families, to the troops and to our democratic ideals.
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Hard-bitten men synonymous with war and corruption, the generals are engaging in delicate talks with the hitherto unknown leaders of this youthful and inchoate uprising.
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It accentuates the fight against gender norms — the same fight Rosenberg and company face by centering their story on a hard-bitten, hard-drinking female noir detective.
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A hard-bitten veteran of the Spanish-American and Philippine wars, Pershing, known as Black Jack, hardly seemed the type of soldier to harbor a sentimental streak.
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For all the hyperbole of elections, expectations are modest in hard-bitten places like Double Springs and—helpfully for Mr Trump—the bar for political honour is low.
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On the surface, it doesn't seem like Nicole Kidman has too much in common with her Destroyer character — a hard-bitten, alcoholic LAPD detective in search of revenge.
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One of those new nominees was Allison Janney, who won her first Oscar for her supporting role in I, Tonya, playing Tonya Harding's hard-bitten, abusive mother LaVona.
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A makeshift altar to the dead, featuring the image of a saint with two AK-47s floating above his head, now stands in one of Ocotlan's hard-bitten neighborhoods.
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But he does not wish away such stubborn, unfortunate facts as social prejudice and failed states, and he wrestles with the issue of immigration from that hard-bitten perspective.
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NEWLY RELEASED CRY OF THE HUNTED A hard-bitten cop (Barry Sullivan) chases a Cajun fugitive (Vittorio Gassman in one of his first Hollywood movies) into the Louisiana bayou.
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"It is a way of extending solicitude to people who live in the hard-bitten white rural counties," he said, but not to black residents in poor urban neighborhoods.
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Plagued by death, failure, self-contempt and his memories of being sexually abused in his early teens by hard-bitten burlesque dancers, he depicted an increasingly nihilistic view of humanity.
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There are the expected topline clichés like that noir voiceover and Phil's doting secretary (Maya Rudolph, who is easily the film's best performance), which pay homage to hard-bitten detective films.
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He was a consultant on the 18703 film "Ulee's Gold," in which Peter Fonda's portrayal of a solitary, hard-bitten beekeeper with family trouble won him an Oscar nomination for best actor.
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Her careful balance of the hard-bitten with the heartfelt is what elevates "Long Bright River" from entertaining page-turner to a book that makes you want to call someone you love.
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The Braves might be OK in 2017, and they've taken some conscientious stabs at respectability in acquiring Brandon Phillips from Cincinnati and keeping the hard-bitten, nearly forgotten Freddie Freeman at first base.
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But Fugazi went for something direct and throttling; it played around with Jamaican dub, the loose-limbed punk coming from California, and drops of minimalism, arriving at a dark, stony, hard-bitten sound.
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" He also found success playing his hard-bitten screen image for laughs, in such comedic roles as an insecure mob boss in "Analyze This" and a retired CIA operative in "Meet the Fockers.
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The picture summoned for me the syncretic, post-apocalyptic imagery of Denis's second novel, "Fiskadoro," in which the long-dead Bob Marley is an actual god for the hard-bitten people of the Florida Keys.
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Brezovica, about 250 miles southeast of Sarajevo, served as a backup for those games, but Yugoslavia's more hard-bitten skiers already knew the place for offering the steepest slopes and deepest powder for the fewest dinars.
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This did not sit well with Jackson, a hard-bitten man who was orphaned as a teen and made his name in combat against the British and then by leading a violent campaign against Native American tribes.
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While the show's main character is gone, several things remain: the docu-fiction aesthetic, the near-centrality of the Cali Cartel; and Pedro Pascal as Javier Peña, the hard-bitten D.E.A. agent who helped take down Escobar.
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" Or, as one self-described "hard-bitten socialist" said to the journalist Heywood Broun at the time: "That old man with the burning eyes actually believes that there can be such a thing as the brotherhood of man.
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Last year, investors pressured shale companies, hard-bitten by the 210 downturn in prices, to rein in spending and return more capital to shareholders through dividends and share buybacks, selling stocks of companies that spent more on drilling.
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"Robbie is able to acknowledge that Tonya's hard-bitten nature is rooted in a place of hurt, which is apparent in every faltering smile and piercing grace," Angelica Jade Bastién wrote in a wide-ranging appreciation in Vulture.
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But that is, and always has been, a reductive way of looking at the way Toronto's artists have been able to embrace the hard-bitten truths of life and being human; proving that they are more resilient and durable.
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GOLD COAST, Australia (Reuters) - Since the retirement of Anna Meares after the Games in Rio de Janeiro, Australia has longed for a successor to the hard-bitten coalminer's daughter who extracted gold, silver and bronze from four Olympic velodromes.
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Through a combination of patience, wisdom and Jedi-like concentration, he improves the life of a hard-bitten journalist (Matthew Rhys) who is assigned to write about him, and who has a chilly relationship with his father (Chris Cooper).
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A boss turned the light off, and another boss pressed play, and a screen lit up with the trailer for a movie called End Of Days, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as a hard-bitten atheist cop named Jericho Cane.
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A boss turned the light off, and another boss pressed play, and a screen lit up with the trailer for a movie called End Of Days, which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as a hard-bitten atheist cop named Jericho Cane.
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Mr. Lu, 57, started off as an amateur photographer while working in a factory, and is well-known in China and abroad for his searing, but often carefully composed, pictures of hard-bitten lives in rural and industrial areas.
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His Beckett isn't some scenery-chewing caricature of a smuggler; he's a hard-bitten guy who has lost a lot along the way and isn't shy about doling out chestnuts about never trusting anyone or how people are always predictable.
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But the more stylish aspects of the production are undercut by the clichés, from the corrupt cops to Singletary's Korean War flashbacks to his hard-bitten editor, who urges him to bring back a story, never mind the collateral damage.
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When he was 11, his mom moved him along with four of his brothers and two of his sisters to Victorville, a hard-bitten, often violent desert city 50 miles to the north that carried the unfortunate nickname of Victimville.
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Michael Shannon is reliably hard-bitten as the cop, but too many of the Texas scenes, with Aaron Taylor-Johnson overdoing it as the main thug, carry a nasty whiff of the ersatz—an art-house fantasy of the redneck.
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In a factoid-saturated, opinion-polluted media environment, the emotion and outrage of hard-bitten outback farmers, a breed more commonly associated with skepticism and understatement, has an authenticity that no amount of scientific evidence or talking heads can project.
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For a quarter-century, they have circled each other as hard-bitten rivals for one of the plum jobs in law enforcement, the claim to the Tiffany badge of the commissioner of the New York Police Department, the country's biggest police force.
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" To Hilton McRae—who, as a hard-bitten reporter in Mendes's production of "The Front Page," had to shout, "My God, she's dead!" when a woman jumped from the newsroom window—Mendes said, "After you say the line, pick up your camera.
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Hockney pursues the same friends as sitters doggedly, year after year, finding and re-finding them, as they change from the very epitome of the beautiful Renaissance boy with tumbling ringlets to something older, shorter cropped, more hard-weathered, more hard-bitten altogether.
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It is an enticing interpretation, in part, because it fits the widespread perception of Burnley as nothing more than a team of doughty, hard-bitten journeymen trying to survive among the sophisticates of the Premier League on nothing more than grim determination.
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His earliest persona was this kind of dandy schoolmaster that was teaching school in Long Island, walking around with a cane and mutton chops, and then for 20 straight years he was this hard bitten journalist going from newspaper to newspaper cranking out copy.
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Most have become so hard-bitten that they have completely lost their ability to empathize with anyone other than their own tribe, and most have become so cynical that they use Peres's aspiration about one day birthing "a new Middle East" as a laugh line.
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"Evening of Mourning (Ferguson Goddam)" is a lament for racial justice, with its musical roots in New York free jazz: starting with a simple repeated cry, the saxophonist opens up space for Mr. Taylor, who sets things in motion with hard-bitten splashes of improvisation.
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Although even the most hard-bitten existentialist would be unlikely to support a systematic framework for suicide, it makes a difference when "suicide" is more likely to mean a fender bender and damage to one's pocket rather than the death or injury of another.
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In "Sweetbitter" we meet a handsome if hard-bitten young bartender ("He drank like he was the only person who understood beer"); an enigmatic female head server who is Tess's mentor and tormentor; a harried chef; a manager who does more than ogle his favorite female employees.
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In the 1980s and 1990s, Mr. Scarcella was the New York Police Department's go-to detective in some of Brooklyn's most crime-ridden precincts, a swaggering, old-school figure with a taste for cigars and a reputation for getting even the most hard-bitten defendants to confess.
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It's a highly stylized, incredibly ambitious film that doesn't quite hit its marks, but it tries hard to illustrate how the modern appetite for sensationalism and spectacle leads to both celebrity and self-destruction — and Portman's performance as a strung-out pop star is appropriately hard-bitten and manic.
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The only veterans in the unit are the kind-hearted Lieutenant Turner and the hard-bitten Sergeant Pierson, who is striving for redemption for something that happened at Kasserine Pass, a North African battle where the U.S. Army was soundly beaten in its first major engagement against the Germans.
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The opening scene remains an extravagant wonder in its fantastical bringing together of women throughout history (a pope and an explorer among them) for a dinner party presided over by the successful but hard-bitten businesswoman Marlene, whom we later get to know at work and at home.
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As master printer on Avedon's last major project, "In the American West," Mr. Hofmann was responsible for bringing out the myriad gray shades and material details in "Boyd Fortin," the portrait of the 13-year-old rattlesnake skinner, and the other images of weathered, hard-bitten characters featured in the landmark 1985 exhibition and book.
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The surprise, really, is that hard-bitten traders were naive enough to believe that Mr Trump, a man whom Martin Wolf of the FT memorably described as "a promoter of paranoid fantasies, a xenophobe and an ignoramus" and "grossly unqualified for the world's most important political office" would easily construct, and enact, a coherent economic plan.
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There's the unproven new private (Jovan Adepo) who will be forced to find reservoirs of strength; the hard-bitten, taciturn corporal (Wyatt Russell) steadfastly committed to the mission; and the young French women (Mathilde Ollivier) who winds up helping them, having seen what monsters the Nazis are, separate from what's transpiring in the basement of that church.
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Wielding blaster pistols, piloting futuristic vehicles and, to her occasional chagrin, wearing strange hairdos and a revealing metal bikini, she reprised the role in three more films — "The Empire Strikes Back" in 1980, "Return of the Jedi" in 1983 and, 32 years later, "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," by which time Leia had become a hard-bitten general.
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In a country that is so bitterly divided along partisan and tribal lines, the meeting that NewsGuard's two dozen website analysts have every morning to review draft ratings and Nutrition Labels is an exhilarating reminder of what is possible when people of varying backgrounds (we have conservatives and liberals, hard-bitten veteran editors and idealistic millennials) unite around and focus on core values.
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The series evolved considerably in tone and content over the course of 20 years — the Corwin books start as lone-fantasy-hero novels with a touch of hard-bitten detective story (much like the Dresden Files books), and turn into an epic war story, while the Merlin books are more about a cosmic hacker on a quest, trying to reshape reality.
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All of which is an issue — not just for hard-bitten manufacturing communities, but also for President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE and his fellow Republicans.
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From there, though, they sought out characters who were each more radically different from the last: Peni Parker (Orange Is the New Black's Kimiko Glenn), a Japanese American schoolgirl from 1,000 years in the future; Spider-Man Noir (Nicolas Cage), a hard-bitten black-and-white crime fighter from the 1930s; and Spider-Ham (Big Mouth's John Mulaney), a talking pig from a cartoon-y universe who is also, somehow, a Spider-hero.
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And while for much of the film Johnson comes across as a hard-bitten career politician whose main interest is in figuring out how to stay as close to power as possible — early on, he tells aides that it's in his best interest for the civil rights debate to "go on forever" — he eventually seems to grow a conscience, finally giving up playing both sides to call out an old pal as a racist to his face.
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