The Dallas RNC was a festival of Cold War hard-assery.
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Hard-assery
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They'd had two hours together last night. The Junior Cert was coming and her mam and dad were see-sawing between hardassery and judicial lenience, and on this occasion the lever had come down in her favour.
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Late one night, my daughter told me I was a cool mom, but by the next morning I was the worst, and I'm honestly not sure which assertion worried me more. I like to dazzle them with my hardassery and surprise them with grace. Keeps them on their toes.
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A character previously defined by his contempt and hard-assery now was entering a party in beautiful makeup and hair to sing "La Vie En Rose." That's quite the shift. Fans—newfound and old—adored it.
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