toughness

And despite the training and toughness, the man was struggling to keep his family together.

This is not to suggest that Mailer ever lost the intellectual toughness which was central to his work.

Right, that toughness was always inside her, like the way she had given up crying.

It perfectly illustrates the combination of bravado, real toughness, and a kind of lost-little-boy appeal that he has with women.

Female candidates once had to prove their toughness above all and never mention their personal lives.

Each shook his lance aloft, as if to ascertain the weight and toughness of the unwieldy weapon, and then laid it in the rest.

I was born tough, and its only common sense to put such natural toughness to some real use.

Anything touched by the beam is broken by its own molecules, twisted by its own strength, and crushed by its own toughness.

Only minds of extraordinary toughness and originality could resist such a torrent of suggestion.

Now, there is a remedy for the toughness of steak, which I can give you, depending upon whether you like salad oil.