My name is Thomas Hards. The answer is yes =].
The U.S. launched a preemptive strike against the taliban to prevent terrorism.
No it's not hyphenated.
Those letters can be used to spell "madding", as in the title of Thomas Hardy's novel Far from the Madding Crowd.
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I can give you several sentences.That is a hardy plant.The hardy ponies stood with their backs to the cold wind.He has a hardy constitution.
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The hardy pioneers weren't stymied one bit by the sudden, early winter.
Thomas Hardy was once invited to join a committee to establish a Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. His reply was that he was feeling against the desirability of such a memorial to Shakespeare. His observations and opinions on Shakespeare were uncommon but genuine. Hardy believed that Shakespeare did not particularly belong to the theatre world. His distinction as a theatre man was infinitesimal beside his distinction as a poet and as a man of letters. That his expression of himself was cast in the form of words for actors on the stage and not in the form of books to be read, was an accident of his social circumstances which he himself despised. Thomas Hardy here also made the prophetic remark that, of all poets of high rank whose works have taken a stage direction, Shakespeare will someday cease altogether to be acted on stage, and simply begin to be studied. Hardy thus proclaimed his stand against any material monument to the poet, as his works were a great monument. However he later consented to the commissioning of some 'colossal' statue in some place public. Hardy himself has noted these in his Life. He specifically noted the word 'colossal' to denounce the tastes of the vulgar minds of his times, which are exactly applicable to us in our modern times. Vulgarity never changes with Ages.
Yes hardyis a word. It means to have an enduring nature, toughness, hard to defeat. An example sentence - Early explorers endured cold, starvation and diseases as they were a hardy crowd of men.
The word preempt means to take action to ensure another action is prevented. Example being someone taking a preemptive bid on an auction before someone else does.
sturdy, rugged, hardy, robust, mighty
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