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

And even if he had, the hardheaded Massari would not have wrestled.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove