Voorbeelden van thick-skinned

• Not only is this assumption condescending and rude, but its likely consequences are to favour the presumptuous, thick-skinned, confident and socially advantaged over everyone else.

• Thrusts and deformation zones within this thick-skinned belt are, for the most part, steeply inclined.

• No tycoon, however thick-skinned, looks for the kind of publicity which emerges when the exact details of a transaction are revealed.

• However, perhaps he is so thick-skinned that he does not realise the difference.

• We have all got to be very thick-skinned nowadays.

• They are so thick-skinned that it does not matter.

• But we are at any rate pretty thick-skinned.

• I hope that the county council officials, the chief executive and leader of the county council and the ombudsman are thick-skinned enough to sleep easy in their beds.