All depict the same world of broken relationships shored up by hard-won insight and emotional courage.

The artist's hard-won insights are driven home with a shudder.

He can also draw on the connotations of blues and rhythm-and-blues: the horns' urban sophistication and swagger, the lyrics' veneer of hard-won insight.

For the patients in our clinic, change without hard-won insight is the rule.

In "Them," she adds hard-won insights into the complex personalities of her elegant but morally icy mother and stepfather, Tatiana and Alexander Liberman.

Jon Caramanica of The New York Times said, "His hard-won insight is the next best thing to a good swaddle."

In "Them," she returns to the same material, with the addition of biographical information and various hard-won insights into their complex personalities.

Already in his 30s and a show biz veteran, Hunter offers not only the usual clichés, but also mature, hard-won insights into the rock game.

The songs are contemplative but also stubborn and knowing, like hard-won insights.

Rarely are hard-won insights so bluntly and so perceptively put.