And Emma had to concede Sally's inner toughness.

He believes that America has evolved to "a matriarchal society" and that it is losing the "inner toughness" of masculinity.

To be able to survive in that atmosphere tells what kind of inner toughness he has.

Perhaps he was more sensitive than we to his inner toughness.

So you have to have an inner toughness.

It required a steely inner toughness that was the hallmark of many of her heroines.

Did I have the inner toughness it takes to send men to sure death to achieve greater goals?

Randolph is not a big man physically, but he has the inner toughness that comes from making his own way in the world.

She brought an inner toughness, wrung from life at an early age.

But McCarthy's performance was a refreshing combination of daring, inner toughness and racing judgment hardly expected from a youth.