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tough-minded
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tough-mind·ed (tfmndd)
adj.
Facing facts and difficulties with strength and determination; realistic and resolute.
tough-minded·ly adv.
tough-minded·ness n.
tough-minded
adj
practical, unsentimental, stern or intractable
tough-mindedly  adv
tough-mindedness  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.tough-minded - facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determinationtough-minded - facing facts or difficulties realistically and with determination
unsentimental
tough - not given to gentleness or sentimentality; "a tough character"
Translations
tough-minded [ˈtʌfˈmaɪndɪd] ADJ → duro, nada sentimental
tough-minded
adj → störrisch
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They mirror the way that Wilson himself, in his 1987 underclass tract, The Truly Disadvantaged, chided unspecified liberals for not tough-mindedly confronting the pathology that he imagined to have spread through inner cities.
Dissing the underclass by Reed, Adolph, Jr. / The Progressive
More tough-mindedly, it makes sense to look at relatively recent historic developments that undermine any authentic community: the domestic arms race, the corrosion of whole neighborhoods by drugs, especially crack cocaine (a relatively recent development), loss of decent jobs for unskilled workers, forms of urban renewal, and, most importantly, the breakdown of the inner-city black family.
All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of ... by Elshtain, Jean Bethke / Commonweal
This tendency severs the idea of commitment to principle from the need to make realistic assessments of the options that exist in the fluid here-and-now; to analyze tough-mindedly our strengths and weaknesses; to think seriously and instrumentally about how to build a constituency within a social base (to "unite the many to defeat the few," for those nostalgic for old slogans).
Sectarians on the prowl by Reed, Adolph, Jr. / The Progressive
 
 
 
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