hard drinking

There is McAvoy's hard drinking, watery-eyed boss, played by Sam Waterston, who defends the show to the relentlessly commercial, highly nepotistic and unguardedly stupid cable owners.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2012

Their faces were flushed as if by hard drinking, and their pimpled noses resembled huge red barnacles.

From Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by Ozawa

There were a good many guests in the house at times, almost invariably men, but none of the wild revels of the old days, very little hard drinking, and no play to speak of.

From Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' by George A. (George Alfred) Lawrence

After a period distinguished by hard drinking and hard eating, has come a period of comparative sobriety, which, in teetotalism and vegetarianism, exhibits extreme forms of protest against the riotous living of the past.

From Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

Be it observed also that the hard fighting, hard drinking, boastful hero of Nieblung fame used a "spur hund," just as his representative of Kentucky or Tennessee used a track hound a thousand years later.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 1 From the Alleghanies to the Mississippi, 1769-1776 by Theodore Roosevelt