toughmindedness

Interpreting the passage as a formula for action, King equates serpents with toughmindedness, doves with tenderheartedness.

Andrew Wilkes: Tough Minds And Tender Hearts: An Open Letter To Young Clergy Andrew Wilkes 2011

Interpreting the passage as a formula for action, King equates serpents with toughmindedness, doves with tenderheartedness.

Andrew Wilkes: Tough Minds And Tender Hearts: An Open Letter To Young Clergy Andrew Wilkes 2011

Does the Obama administration have the guts and the toughmindedness to force the ISI to clearly and demonstratively cut off its contacts with all militant outfits?

U.S. Must Confront Deep-Seated Problems in Pakistan 2009

This combination of guileless optimism with scientific toughmindedness might seem to be no more than an eccentric delusion were the American technology it supports not moving in directions that are strongly anti-democratic.

A Special Supplement: Technology: The Opiate of the Intellectuals McDermott, John 1969

"The really revolutionary aspect of these [characters] is that they don't have to pay for their arrogance and toughmindedness and brashness with the usual penance and retribution," says Molly Haskell, film critic and author of "Frankly My Dear: 'Gone With the Wind'

chicagotribune.com - 2009