hardheadedness

Example Sentences

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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 saw and regarded that persistency which had been the making of the man in Jean Baptiste as "hardheadedness."

From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar