hard-driving
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The original movie, which was based on the best-selling 2003 novel of the same name, focused on the world of Miranda Priestly, the hard-driving, taste-making editor of the fictional Runway magazine.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 28, 2026
He has little of Karp’s genteel bedside manner or public profile and is known instead for an unforgiving style and hard-driving perfectionism.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
Indeed, Deborah became a hard-driving force by mimicking the most ruthless of them.
From Salon • Apr. 10, 2025
For many, the owlish but hard-driving Socialist and Catholic was simply “Mr. Europe.”
From Seattle Times • Dec. 27, 2023
My hope was that they’d grow up to be bright and energetic, optimistic like their father and hard-driving like their mom.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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