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the team's hard-nosed coach doesn't make exceptions for anybody
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Beard is a hard-nosed sort who could still be heated from getting ejected in Tuesday night’s 84-66 loss at Tennessee.
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Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 6 Feb. 2026
Reed spent the summer gushing about this defense bringing back tough, hard-nosed football.
—Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Directed by Felix van Groeningen, the film is resolutely hard-nosed but not without moments of levity and an ultimately redemptive arc for its young lead.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
The men were loose-brained now, dulled by aguardiente and whatever narcotic Grejo had shot into himself, but the morning sun might deliver a hard-nosed clarity, the kind that could get Adi killed.
—Jonathan Miles, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
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Thomas Jones, Austin American Statesman, 6 Feb. 2026
Reed spent the summer gushing about this defense bringing back tough, hard-nosed football.
—Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 5 Feb. 2026
Directed by Felix van Groeningen, the film is resolutely hard-nosed but not without moments of levity and an ultimately redemptive arc for its young lead.
—Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 29 Jan. 2026
The men were loose-brained now, dulled by aguardiente and whatever narcotic Grejo had shot into himself, but the morning sun might deliver a hard-nosed clarity, the kind that could get Adi killed.
—Jonathan Miles, Harpers Magazine, 27 Jan. 2026
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“Hard-nosed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-nosed. Accessed 16 Feb. 2026.
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