| Like most stories about the City News, even this one about the scoop that got away has, in its own hardbitten way, a happy ending. |
| I like to think of myself as a hardbitten cynic, but I'm in tears here. |
| Its hardbitten realism can't conceal a very Irish romanticising of the American outlaw and spiritual hobo. |
| I thought Meighan had a strong, modern and hardbitten presence, I want to see him in more things along this line. |
| Moreover, whether he's playing a Triad thug, a tough-as-nails cop or even a hardbitten firefighter, there's always a very convincing, down-to-earth character coming through. |
| I'm hardbitten these days when it comes to seasonal jollity but a few of my seasonal buttons were depressed I can tell ya. |
