armored heart

With a sharp snap, every fist came to an armored heart as one.

The infinite sky, the trackless desert, and the isolation of each armored heart were characterized by the same nearly impenetrable remoteness.

She let her gloved hand rest lightly above his armored heart, touching the transfixed death's-head that was his heraldic cognizance.

The only Soviet citizen to have won then was the dissident Andrei D. Sakharov in 1975, which hardly warmed the armored heart of the Soviet state.

There are "bony hearts" and "hairy hearts," "irritable hearts" and "frosted hearts," "armored hearts" encased in a calcified shell and "bread-and-butter hearts" slathered in a fibrous ooze.

She saw a warmth of spirit where once she had seen spiritual indifference, vulnerability where once she had seen an armored heart, great expectations where once she had seen withered hope; she saw kindness and gentleness where they had always been but now in more generous measure than before.