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iron-jawed

[ahy-ern-jawd] / ˈaɪ ərnˈdʒɔd /


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Damien Chazelle’s film about the iron-jawed, ice-water-in-the-veins pilot and astronaut Neil Armstrong is a rocket pointed directly at the distant planet known as Awards Season.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2018

His face is stolid, meaty, neither iron-jawed nor glamorously gaunt.

From Time • Feb. 9, 2012

For six rounds, iron-jawed, oak-legged Godoy, his left eye dripping blood from a first-round bombardment, stuck close to his adversary, withstood his short-range punches.

From Time Magazine Archive

Cute young chicks from Rome and Bologna sat next to iron-jawed veterans who had stuck hatpins in policemen's horses in long-ago street riots in Berlin and Buenos Aires, Melbourne and Madrid.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thomas jumped as a terrible crash sounded right outside their door, accompanied by screams and the splintering of wood, like some iron-jawed monster was eating the entire stairwell.

From "The Maze Runner" by James Dashner




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