0 A speech or piece of writing that is hard-hitting includes strong criticism of something:
The committee published a hard-hitting report on the bank's management.
The document is gloomy and hard-hitting but realistic.
It had some hard-hitting conclusions on compliance costs that should make us sit back and think.
However, after those two platitudes, there are serious and very hard-hitting measures and issues to be discussed.
He has drawn up not only a very concise but also a very hard-hitting report.
That may be an extreme example, but it is a fairly tough, hard-hitting example of what can happen if some arms of competition are removed.
The hard-hitting speech to which we have listened this evening was one that we are used to hearing.
That was a hard-hitting, cross-cutting report that generated rigorous self-examination and was followed by a reappraisal last summer.
We have had hard-hitting debates, but they have been conducted in a spirit of mutual respect and good will.
