John Pike, of GlobalSecurity.org, an American consultancy, offers a hard-boiled view of all this.
We will certainly respect the history, but some of the best hard-boiled fiction is being written today.
Expectations are so high that even hard-boiled Wall Street types are now ascribing magical powers to Steve Jobs.
Peevish and ill at ease, Zellweger is miscast as a hard-boiled "modern" woman.
Her heroine, Eve Diamond, prowls an updated version of the city Raymond Chandler made famous in his hard-boiled mysteries.
To appreciate just how much so, one only has to read old hard-boiled detective novels and English manor-house mysteries.
The laser, which made a rapid-fire popping sound, cut cleanly and quickly through the outer shell of a hard-boiled egg.
Whatever you think of the rubber-faced funnyman, hard-boiled sax-noodling anti-hero is unlikely to be the first image that comes to mind.
After three martinis my friend switches to a local brew of Budweiser, salt and a hard-boiled egg plopped in a glass.
Children are the primary beneficiaries of the festivities and take part in a number of activities, such as decorating hard-boiled eggs.
Breakfast is always the same: some cold smoked fish, hard-boiled eggs, pungent natto (fermented tofu) and other leftovers from the night before.
However, Sturges deftly puts his own spin on the hard-boiled detective story.
But Bowden also recommends even lower-cal choices, like a single hard-boiled egg.
Rather than baskets, children once left out their straw-filled caps and bonnets to be filled with colored, hard-boiled eggs by the Easter Hare.
Wolfe, the director, has pulled off the stunning feat of turning them into a true ensemble, one whose hard-boiled unanimity is awesome to behold.
Why do hard-boiled analysts, who see right through rigged elections in Russia and Syria, fall for "the biggest crime of fraud in Egyptian history"?
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So parents give their children an extra banana or hard-boiled egg.
They include hard-boiled history, such as a review of how the confused motives of the British government's 1917 Balfour Declaration first laid the ground for the conflict.
Dishes like pork and shrimp dumplings topped with a hard-boiled quail egg are so popular that diners will crowd around as soon as carts enter the dining room.
An action-packed, hard-boiled science fiction novel of redemption and revenge.
More hard-boiled analysts want solid evidence of a sustainable business model that can be defended from competition, and that the manifold costs of acquiring and keeping the customers is really affordable.
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The men, filthy from scavenging for belongings in the ruins, sit for a smoke and a chat, while the women prepare miso soup with vegetables, hard-boiled eggs and seaweed for dinner.
If her victory in Ames was no great surprise an evangelical Christian with hard-boiled pro-life, anti-gay-marriage credentials was always likely to prosper in the God-fearing cornfields of Iowa her disciplined comportment as a campaigner has been.
For children, at least in our family, the main event wasn't the service, or snacking on the symbolic bitter herbs, hard-boiled eggs or sweet charoset (a paste made from apples and nuts), or even dinner.
Whether you are a devotee of the Black Swan Theory or merely another hard-boiled cynic like me, you may now be counted among those who place little comfort in years of accumulated stock market statistics.
The hard-boiled Hong Kong action god (last seen in 1995's Peace Hotel) officially blasted off his Hollywood film career when his long-planned American movie, The Replacement Killers, began shooting in Los Angeles on Feb. 10.
That was tough stuff in 1940, and it was only because of such gorgeous songs as "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered" and "I Could Write a Book" that Broadway audiences were able to stomach the plot, which still comes across as thoroughly hard-boiled.
There are enough of these wacky strategies out there that some hard-boiled cynics (for example, me) have made a habit of pointing out some of the more ludicrous examples, like relating national economic growth to average penis size, and stock market returns to an over-fit model using Butter Production in Bangladesh.
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