1.   But on Sunday, the cold facts made it impossible to snow the hardened critics.

2.   Harding is a hardened critic.

3.   Of course, for the most hardened critics it is never enough.

4.   Watching this interrogation, even the most hardened China critics must have felt that the state visit served a purpose after all.

5.   Even his most hardened critics get the full treatment from Beckie Moore when they visit his first home and hear his childhood story.