Word: steelier
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...apply this reform, we may as well stop because we won't achieve any others," Henri Guaino, a special advisor to Sarkozy, told the daily Libération. During a visit to Germany on Monday, Sarkozy voiced even steelier determination when declaring, "We were elected to transform France, and will apply these reforms because they must be applied." Aware of union promises to employ bare-knuckled defense of the "special regime" pensions, French Prime Minister François Fillon advised his parliamentary backers to "fasten your seat belts" ahead of tomorrow's turbulence...
...Moore's ironic, almost geriatric Bond, and then Timothy Dalton's leaden, I'm-really-a-serious-actor Bond, the debonair Irishman has reinvigorated the old spy and started to make the character his own. Although he delivers Bond-mots with requisite panache, Brosnan plays the part straighter and steelier than Moore did, and he's plainly more comfortable in 007's skin than Dalton was. On the beachside set in Cadiz, he slips into and out of the role, puffing a Cuban cigar all the while. Playing Bond "is bloody hard work," he says during a break from filming...
...gives you a nickname. If that hasn't won you over completely, he moves on to someone else, and you go down on his Suspicious Characters List. In Washington, Republicans cling to the notion that "W" is tougher, and tougher-minded, than the sentimental dad, that he is steelier, a realist who isn't afraid of Democrats, reporters, anyone. It is said so often and by so many people that it's easy to forget the old man could be tough too. The difference is that he thought twice about letting you know. "W" never tires...