How to Use hard-driving in a Sentence
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Their relationship has predictably evolved over the years, with Burghart starting as a hard-driving taskmaster and growing into a counselor.
—Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2023
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Simmons won an Oscar for his portrayal of the hard-driving music professor in Damien Chazelle’s acclaimed drama Whiplash, one of the actor’s many accolades for the role.
—Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
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McLain, who is represented by hard-driving agent Scott Boras, wanted $3 million.
—Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2023
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The result is an occasionally awkward mix of gentle mystery and hard-driving suspense, but the easy camaraderie and lush descriptions paper over any plot holes.
—Sarah Weinman, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2023
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The defense lawyer initially assigned to her case is well-meaning, but frightened and ineffective; the hard-driving prosecutor who demands the death penalty for an abused 15-year-old is self-aggrandizing but, in his own way, idealistic.
—Rosa Brooks, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
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Belichick was notoriously stony and hard-driving, with a conservative play-calling approach; Saban was dynamic and fiery.
—Louisa Thomas, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2024
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