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hardheadedness



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So it says something about American hardheadedness that we’ve resisted learning about Robbie Williams for the last 35 years.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 24, 2024

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

He was a curious combination of hardheadedness, of ironical wisdom, and of humour, and somewhere, hidden deep within, of molten sentiment.

From Hempfield A Novel by David Grayson




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