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hard-edged en · ADJ
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tough and unsentimental
Duffy also manages to completely avoid sentimentality, maybe because the world in which her characters live doesn't allow much softness. Both mother and daughter have a hard-edged survival mentality, but both are able to preserve a deep ability to love.
1985 February 2, Andrea Freud Loewenstein, “Lust, Guilt and Authentic Lesbian Lives”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 28, page 11:
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