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On “The Last of Us,” Jeffrey Wright’s Isaac Dixon is the hard-edged leader of the Washington Liberation Front, a rebel group fighting the Seraphites, a theocratic cult, for control of post-Cordyceps Seattle.

Lisa was up first, on Friday night, with a slick, highly-choreographed set that combined hard-edged rap cuts like Money and Lifestyle, with the softer sounds of Moonlit Floor and Dream.

Hackman's hard-edged screen persona made him ideal for the intelligent but ruthless characters in film adaptations of John Grisham novels - such as The Firm and Runaway Jury - in which, for the first time, he and former flatmate Dustin Hoffman appeared on screen together.

“Some in the markets may hope that the tariffs are a hard-edged negotiating stance and that Trump may back down at the last minute as negotiations with Canada and Mexico are ongoing,” said Christopher Rupkey, chief economist at Fwdbonds in New York.

It wasn’t until I began listening to these recordings by the Barcelona-based Cuarteto Casals, though, that it dawned on me how similar the playing of most other groups is: biting and hard-edged, bows digging into the strings.