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the team's hard-nosed coach doesn't make exceptions for anybody
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Going Dutch stars Leary as Colonel Patrick Quinn, a hard-nosed military man who gets assigned to oversee a lowly service base in the Netherlands.
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Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 7 May 2025
As the procurers of finances and managers of staff, they’re often seen as the hard-nosed businesspeople behind the whimsical auteurs.
—Serena Dai, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
Their main thrust, not just on trade, but in security and defense, too, is to make a hard-nosed business case for U.S. involvement and support.
—Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2025
The sophisticated parsing of law and finance, the hard-nosed practicality of retail politics, and the workaday lilt of person-in-the-street interviews converge on the soundtrack and are reflected in images that are modestly but candidly communicative—uninflected but humming with passion.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
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Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 7 May 2025
As the procurers of finances and managers of staff, they’re often seen as the hard-nosed businesspeople behind the whimsical auteurs.
—Serena Dai, The Atlantic, 6 May 2025
Their main thrust, not just on trade, but in security and defense, too, is to make a hard-nosed business case for U.S. involvement and support.
—Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 1 May 2025
The sophisticated parsing of law and finance, the hard-nosed practicality of retail politics, and the workaday lilt of person-in-the-street interviews converge on the soundtrack and are reflected in images that are modestly but candidly communicative—uninflected but humming with passion.
—Richard Brody, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
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“Hard-nosed.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hard-nosed. Accessed 20 May. 2025.
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