hardheaded

Example Sentences

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Even worse are the hardheaded dollars-and-cents realists of Wall Street who take this new reality as a given.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 2, 2025

The verdict’s out on a more hardheaded and unruly species.

From Seattle Times • May 10, 2023

I was hardheaded, self-contained and struggled to show affection toward the people I loved.

From Salon • Dec. 15, 2022

If there are two takeaways from “Eat Your Mind: The Radical Life and Work of Kathy Acker,” a smart and sympathetic but hardheaded new biography by the Toronto journalist Jason McBride, they are these.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2022

“You're hardheaded, but you’re smart. You can read better than any of us. And the way you do those numbers, all in your head...”

From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson