If legend is to be believed, underneath that hard rocky exterior lies the heart of a romantic.

Over time, she begins to penetrate his hard exterior and he tries to cooperate with her efforts to mount a defense for him.

However, Provenza has a soft side buried beneath his hard exterior.

He is one of those dominant guys with a cold and hard exterior.

And yet, there were the occasional hints of a more human being beneath the hard, secretive exterior.

She is a troubled character and protects herself by creating a hard exterior around herself.

At times she is scared she puts on a "hard exterior".

Brown, who projects a hard exterior, began to cry, his mother said.

Through this experience, Sarah learns to mask her emotions and replace them instead with a hard exterior.

He comes across as rough and tough, but his hard exterior hides a caring, concerned nature underneath.