She sounded oddly hard and brittle, not to be touched.

"That makes it sound hard to reach," one of the older women said.

Those do sound hard to write about.

The whole truth would sound too hard to believe.

It sounds hard and sad, I know, but you've got to remember that we finally had a well child.

She knew her own voice sounded hard and shrewish.

He was trying to sound hard and sure of himself, but this was starting to get to him.

"I suppose it does sound hard to believe, at that," said Brewster morosely.

Her voice sounded hard and angry, a new note that Strand had never heard before from her.

She laughed in a way that sounded hard and bitter.