hard-faced
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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He covered the Prague Spring, in 1968, when the Soviets invaded Czechoslovakia to suppress the Dubček reforms, and his pictures of the armed, hard-faced occupiers singing and dancing in Prague spoke for themselves.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 8, 2019
Beyoncé, in multiple hairstyles and fashions, is shown both alluring and unglamorous: hard-faced, unhappy, sweaty, harshly lit.
From New York Times ● Apr. 24, 2016
He, rather than his team, has become the story, and that is almost always a bad thing when the industry is so angry and so hard-faced.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2016
Not so long ago a visiting IMF mission of "hard-faced men with red pencils" would trigger demonstrations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2014
A hard-faced stringy woman who everyone called Blue Eyes and who scared Nailer maybe even more than his father scared him.
From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi
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