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The best-written and best-acted, by Nicholas Woodeson part is Ben's father-in-law, estranged from his granite-hard only daughter, though he wants to move in with her and Ben, whom he likes.

A Slow 'Rocket' That Struggles to Take Off Paul Levy 2011

And Grace Jones's Hurricane – another comeback from a disco veteran – proved her granite-hard badass persona has simply become scarier and more effective with time.

Let's hear it for the middle-aged female popstar 2011

The memory of the frozen, granite-hard pitches, the shin-shattering knocks, the chilblains and perpetual defeats, still hurt.

A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010

His beautiful blue eyes were granite-hard and unyielding when he was deep in thought, yet when he smiled, they softened, and the most amazing dimple dented his left cheek.

Risk No Secrets Cindy Gerard 2010

His beautiful blue eyes were granite-hard and unyielding when he was deep in thought, yet when he smiled, they softened, and the most amazing dimple dented his left cheek.

Risk No Secrets Cindy Gerard 2010

Truly, only her eyelids and plumped-up lips seem to move in her granite-hard face, which looks even more alarming on a big screen than on television.

Can We Talk? 2010

Katie's almost inhuman coldness and joylessness - her granite-hard face lit up solely when someone mentioned money or plastic surgery - was counterbalanced by a husband so spectacularly cheerful, good-natured and dumb, he made the famous labrador Marley look like Vladimir Putin.

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Katie's almost inhuman coldness and joylessness - her granite-hard face lit up solely when someone mentioned money or plastic surgery - was counterbalanced by a husband so spectacularly cheerful, good-natured and dumb, he made the famous labrador Marley look like Vladimir Putin.

Katie and Peter Stateside : Reality Bites juliette 2009

But there is a granite-hard scientific consensus that humans are forcing climate change at a rate unprecendented in the history of our species.

Think Progress » VIDEO: Luntz Converts On Global Warming, Distances Himself From Bush 2006

The only difference between a soldier and a civilian was training, after all, and Bondarenko wanted no less than to bring the Russian army to the same razor-sharp and granite-hard condition with which it had kicked in the gates of Berlin under Zhukov and Koniev.

The Bear and the Dragon Clancy, Tom, 1947- 2000