hardheadedness

Example Sentences

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The founding father’s hardheadedness could also sometimes cause trouble.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

I don’t mean realism in the colloquial sense, meaning hardheadedness, or political realism, which assumes we’re all selfish jerks.

From Scientific American • Mar. 19, 2021

But it also is the ultimate example of, I guess, my hardheadedness.

From Slate • Mar. 15, 2020

My uptown feats didn’t impress people whom I looked up to in the downtown art scene, where anti-bourgeois hardheadedness and minimalist disdain for the “literary” reigned.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 16, 2019

Indeed, I think she holds to it all the tighter for her hardheadedness in every-day affairs.

From A Poor Man's House by Reynolds, Stephen Sydney