hardheaded

hard·head·ed | \ ˈhärd-ˈhe-dəd

Definition of hardheaded

2 : concerned with or involving practical considerations : sober, realistic some hardheaded advice a hardheaded observer of winds and tides

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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 Web Parker himself has already succeeded at convincing hardheaded institutions to work together. — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, "Health," 1 Feb. 2020 Like the kind of thing Jesus would ask the disciples and hardheaded Peter would always get wrong. Fly and Brent were smoking up every Sunday before church now, like a regular sacrament. — Tiphanie Yanique, The New Yorker, "God’s Caravan," 28 Oct. 2019 Here's a thought experiment: Imagine for a moment that a hardheaded social scientist from, say, 1974 is plucked out of time and dropped here, in the midst of the internet age. — Zeynep Tufekci, WIRED, "Altruism Still Fuels the Web. Businesses Love to Exploit It," 20 Aug. 2019 That may sound utopian, but Rosenfeld suggests a hardheaded justification. — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, "State of the Unions," 19 Aug. 2019 In ‘‘Brown Girl, Brownstones,’’ her autobiographical debut, a young Brooklyn woman seeks her own identity amid the conflicting values of her Barbadian parents — her hardheaded mother and tragically hopeful father. — Hillel Italie, BostonGlobe.com, "Paule Marshall, novelist of diverse influences, at 90," 16 Aug. 2019 If Herzog is a mystic and a shaman, though, Argentina’s Lucrecia Martel is a more hardheaded sort of cinematic poet. — Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, "‘Zama’ is Lucrecia Martel’s latest one-of-a-kind offering," 4 July 2018 Russia takes a hardheaded approach to peacekeeping. — Richard Gowan, Washington Post, "Could U.N. peacekeepers help end the war in Ukraine?," 1 Mar. 2018 Gutiérrez, who came from a humble upbringing in Sinaloa State, was known as the mature leader who often stood up for Lozano, a small speedster whose hardheaded personality clashed with coaches and teammates. — James Wagner, New York Times, "A Nightmare for Mexico’s Soccer Opponents: More Chuckys On the Way," 27 June 2018

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