hard-shell

There are reasons, in other words, for hard-shell conservatives to give him the gimlet eye.

One main culprit was the hard-shell helmet that had essentially become a spearing weapon.

What the hard-shell righties want to know is not about the boring issue of consular security.

From a policy perspective, this is the next battleground, the pressure point of resistance for the hard-shell ideologues.

He has a hard shell, but he is a good fellow, and as innocent of his brother's death as I am.

Confucianism added layer after layer of hard shell about the inert organism of social life.

The two creatures had become so well acquainted that the old Hard Shell fully trusted the lively little fellow.

The Almonds commonly sold by nurserymen in the east are hard-shell varieties, and the nuts are not good enough for commerce.

But perhaps he never stopped to think that one might almost as well bite a rock as his hard shell.