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hardheadedness



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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

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 Oscar Micheaux




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