How to Use hard-driving in a Sentence

hard-driving

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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
• 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
• McLain, who is represented by hard-driving agent Scott Boras, wanted $3 million.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2023
• Large city agencies are naturally resistant to change, new demands, and hard-driving bosses.
  — Eric Lach, The New Yorker, 8 Apr. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• But the hard-working band is getting some help this year from My Morning Jacket — the similarly incendiary live act that mashes hard-driving guitars, wailing vocals and county twang into cosmically beautiful tunes.
  — John Wenzel, The Denver Post, 25 Mar. 2024
• That’s especially true of striving and hard-driving institutional leaders; just look to Washington D.C.
  — Emma Goldberg Sarah Mollo-Christensen Tanya Pérez Sharon Kearney, New York Times, 9 May 2024

Last Updated: 2 Nov 2024