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Toughness in sentence

46 examples of Toughness in a sentence

This is the comparison of the toughness of the dragline spilk spun by 21 species of spiders.
What you see here on this toughness graph is the higher the black dot is on the graph, the higher the toughness.
If you look right here at the two red arrows, they point to the toughness values for the draglines of nephila clavipes and araneus diadematus.
It's the combination of strength, extensibility and toughness that makes spider silk so special, and that has attracted the attention of biomimeticists, so people that turn to nature to try to find new solutions.
And the strength, extensibility and toughness of spider silks combined with the fact that silks do not elicit an immune response, have attracted a lot of interest in the use of spider silks in biomedical applications, for example, as a component of artificial tendons, for serving as guides to regrow nerves, and for scaffolds for tissue growth.
You can see here a very squishy one and now a material that's also this hybrid sort of material but actually has remarkable toughness, and it's no longer brittle.
And an inorganic material would normally be really brittle, and you wouldn't be able to have that sort of strength and toughness in it.
The second thing I want to leave you with is the person at the middle of the challenge has to be willing to have the mental toughness to put themselves out there.
And stoicism has spread like wildfire in the top of the NFL ranks as a means of mental toughness training in the last few years.
Your strength, your bravery, your toughness: Can we redefine what those mean and use them to explore our hearts?
These high-density cells give nails and claws their trademark toughness.
Now, Anthony has a nut allergy, and I thought that was tough, but PKU's on another level of toughness.
But I know toughness when I see it.
A constant I'm discovering in these films is the toughness and grit of the actresses in the roles of prisoners preparing for escape while their threshold, tolerance, and resolve(..not to mention sanity)being tested by their superiors.
Thus proving that beauty and toughness DO go together!
She also brings across genuine toughness.
The playing is excellent, Tierney, who I've only just discovered as an actress (largely through watching old film-noirs!) is again radiantly beautiful as the ashamed kleptomaniac, desperate for a cure, but at the same time conveying her character's complexity and inner toughness as she finally breaks the hypnotic spell cast on her by Ferrer.
Mitchum portrays a smooth toughness and quiet desperation in Jeb, creating a perfect cinematic hero for all to easily rally behind.
He played him with toughness, irreverence and humor.
It pulls no punches about the toughness of the action, which is laudable.
Hard Boiled's stark cinematography of the nicotine stained Hong Kong night scene portrays the toughness and rawness of probably the greatest computer unaided action film made.
As well, the cinematography supports the toughness of our hard boiled hero.
He's bid but in no way looks bad, he just doesn't have an action man look of toughness he can give out,Gruner has this and it makes you think he would have been so much better in the lead.
Garfield has perhaps the best role of his career, as he marvelously conveys the toughness, confidence, and compassion of his character.
Plimpton is a young actress who is difficult to cast; she's tough and direct, but her toughness isn't engaging and her direct, no-nonsense manner isn't particularly feminine or fetching.
And don't get me started on the raw cheesiness of the props such as those stupid tiki torches lighting up every part of the building/arena/outside that the bad guy owns, or the main character driving a construction machine to the fight because the car door is locked, or why the bad Asian dude does a Michael Jackson dance after he wins a fight (which I'm sorry for, but it definitely detracts from one's alleged toughness).
Despite his murky profile, Putin's most potent claim to fame – and to power – is a dour toughness.
The common man, rooted in the real world, supposedly knows better: uncompromising toughness, the hard line, is the only way to get results.
In the end, John Paul II does not fit neatly into any category and often represents a meeting of opposites: rejection of compromise with ecumenism, toughness with warmth, intellectual openness with insistence on theological orthodoxy.
Now some are more likely to fear it, especially if it comes in the form of playing to domestic American constituencies’ appetite for supposed toughness.