hardheadedness

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

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 12, 2026

In the courtroom, it was easy to think that city officials’ hardheadedness was all that stood between Banks and the solutions to his clients’ problems.

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2022

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

To see your abdomen in a dream, foretells that you will have great expectations, but you must curb hardheadedness and redouble your energies on your labor, as pleasure is approaching to your hurt.

From Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition by Miller, Gustavus Hindman