He smiled to take the hard edge off his words.

She looked older and a hard edge had come into her green eyes.

And now he spoke with a hard edge to his voice.

She would have been a beautiful woman, save that everything about her had a hard edge.

His hands met air, then the hard edge of the table.

When he spoke now it was with a hard edge to his voice.

Being in on the hard edge of operations always did that to him.

She was watching me, that hard edge in her eyes again.

He stared at her, his voice taking on a hard edge.

These are people who like a hard edge to their policies.