Nancy Meyers

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

American Director

Saint Bernard

Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

Saint

Richard Ashcroft

I was always going to be vulnerable when I left the Verve. It was a hardening experience for me. People saw me stripped down and decided to have their shot. I suppose they wanted to take me down a peg.

English Musician

Ellen Key

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

Swedish Writer

Rudolf Steiner

You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.

Austrian Philosopher

Frankie Valli

In 1967, I found out I was losing my hearing. I went 10 years without any help. I had otosclerosis - hardening of the bone in the middle of the ear.

American Musician

Layne Staley

I don't think any drug that can cause brain damage, failing kidneys, hardening arteries, pain, and suffering should be made available.

James Thurber

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

American Author

Christien Meindertsma

In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect.

Dutch Artist

John Owen

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

English Theologian

Hardening implies a change from flexible to rigid, often in a literal, physical sense.

Physical Transformation

The process of hardening is generally one-way, meaning the material doesn't easily return to its original state.

Irreversible Change

Hardening is used metaphorically to describe a person becoming less emotionally affected.

Emotional Context

When someone hardens themselves, it is often a conscious choice to be less sensitive.

Willful Determination

Hardening in metallurgy is key for building strong, durable metal items and structures.

Industrial Relevance

To harden a position means to become less likely to change one's point of view.

Unyielding Stance

Hardening one's resolve means strengthening dedication to a cause or decision.

Intensified Conviction

In computing, hardening enhances protection against unauthorized access or attacks.

Security Increment

System hardening involves both software updates and adopting best security practices.

Cyber Resilience

 If it's weakened by disease, the organ's ability to produce insulin may be reduced, or even extinguished, which can trigger the condition known as diabetes. Without regular insulin release, sugar steadily builds up in the blood, eventually hardening the blood vessels and causing heart attacks, kidney failure, and strokes.

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 Concrete is a combination of coarse stone and sand particles, called aggregates, that mix with cement, a powdered blend of clay and limestone. When water gets added to this mix, the cement forms a paste and coats the aggregates, quickly hardening through a chemical reaction called hydration.

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 bunker have you ever seen a square egg have you ever seen a square pipeline the geometry of a round shelter is just just by shape is 11 times stronger than square this shelter alone could be buried 42 feet deep without any hardening this one can be buried you can

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 And to show you how often you actually meet part of this pig in a regular day, I want to show you some images of the book. You probably start the day with a shower. So, in soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent,

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 no wonder they call it namibia namibian place of know people it's the oldest desert in the world it's a land of ancient rock that spilled out of the earth over the ages hardening to become the backbone of a country that is the

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 we hear about pre-anxiety, and I'm pretty sure that I diagnosed myself with that in the green room. We also refer to subclinical conditions. There's subclinical atherosclerosis, subclinical hardening of the arteries,

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 and looked down to find her own skin hardening. They embraced, becoming rooted in place. Vines wound around their legs and canopies flourished overhead. They bid each other a loving, last farewell as humans.

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 impressive amount it's it's sort of like concrete that's hardening there's just not as much magma as would be needed to generate one of these massive explosions mike says the yellowstone caldera might

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 urban conservative versus liberal we can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts if we show a little tolerance and humility and if we're willing to stand in the

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 the mothers pee on the top to help this hardening to sort of crust