He was always hardheaded about getting his way.
We need to take a more hardheaded approach to these problems.
She gave him some hardheaded advice.
Recent Examples on the WebThere’s a poignancy in this confession, but also a hardheaded aspect.—Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 2 June 2024 Over his lifetime, Aron was a hardheaded defender of liberal values in the face of fascist and totalitarian ideological challengers.—Raymond Aron, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024 Meryl is a hardheaded Candide, a sharp-eyed Don Quixote.—Jesse Green, New York Times, 15 Nov. 2023 For the sake of both regional stability and long-term U.S. security, Washington needs to sustain a hardheaded, clear-eyed empathy for the interests of the Russians as well as of the Ukrainians and other nationalities.—Frank Costigliola, Foreign Affairs, 27 Jan. 2023 But behind the display of friendship was a backdrop of hardheaded geopolitics.—Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 20 Mar. 2023 Politicians like John Adams and Theodore Roosevelt, and hardheaded businessmen like John D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan, supported Zionist aspirations as well.—Walter Russell Mead, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2022 What does matter is to stop being so hardheaded and close-minded.—San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022 Haidt believes that conditions are too dire to take the hardheaded, no-reasonable-doubt view.—The New Yorker, 3 June 2022
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