The fear had fled with the light and left in its place a flat, hard resolve.

Aurora, the Sleeping Beauty played by an angelical Elle Fanning, tests Maleficent's hard resolve with her innocence.

The aristocrat's hard resolve could not last.

Then, too, the sympathy which had fled from Nan's brown eyes left them full of hard resolve.

It can harden resolve and, properly channelled, become a productive energy source.

That thought alone is enough to harden resolve, set minds to work and accept nothing less than total victory.