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"hardheaded" Definitions
  1. not easily moved or deceived; practical; shrewd.
  2. obstinate; stubborn; willful.

123 Sentences With "hardheaded"

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That may sound utopian, but Rosenfeld suggests a hardheaded justification.
Felicia knew from the start and was hardheaded about it.
They don't let you posture like you're tough and hardheaded.
Others blame an undisciplined set of hardheaded purists incapable of compromise.
Most hardheaded analysis — including from those sympathetic ideologically — suggests this is wrong.
But officially the opposition claimed to be all about hardheaded policy empiricism.
"One thing about my brother is he is hardheaded," Emmanuel Duterte said.
Another requirement may well be a combative attitude, a streak of hardheaded resistance.
But he also has the hardheaded pragmatism that comes with experience, wisdom — and age.
ShondaLand presents its latest guilty pleasure and hardheaded heroine in "The Catch," on ABC.
They often have frustration bordering on contempt for those who lack their hardheaded realism.
He took a hardheaded and hardhanded stance to disguise an inner recognition of worthlessness.
We were two hardheaded people learning to cooperate, and that was a learning process.
This isn't to say that Trump is always being hardheaded and strategic about his decisions.
Voters instead opted for Hillary Clinton's own mix of more moderate policies and hardheaded pragmatism.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — He was a big colt — gangly, hardheaded and not particularly well behaved.
Few Americans would favor selling it to the Walt Disney Company for more hardheaded management.
Roosevelt faced a dismal depression not with pie-in-the-sky proposals but with hardheaded pragmatism.
Against Matt Brown, Maia reminded us that even hardheaded tough guys can't fight with compressed carotids.
Like the kind of thing Jesus would ask the disciples and hardheaded Peter would always get wrong.
But Canada's hospitable attitude is not innate; it is, rather, the product of very hardheaded government policies.
Then he built hardheaded songs about war, impending apocalypse and the resilience of the world's poorest people.
He's known as hardheaded and tough-talking, the kind of "bad cop" popes need to crack recalcitrant bureaucracies.
Their mother (Debra Winger) shuttles between the R.V. behind her bar and the bed of her hardheaded husband.
He's a compelling figure: tough, brash, energetic, hardheaded, and with enough charisma for a dozen Audie Murphy movies.
Hardheaded and fast-living, Lil Baby resisted until his sentence for gun and drug charges limited his options.
She can laugh at herself and brag about herself at exactly the same moment; she's hardheaded and bawdy.
Crowe's performance as the shrewd, hardheaded, competitive, and often colorful businessman is the best part of the series.
None of it grapples with the tectonic shift in European politics away from centrist compromise and toward hardheaded polarization.
Still, I sometimes longed for the narrative reins to be returned to the more hardheaded and clear-eyed Grace.
"There will always be locals that think they know better or are just hardheaded, recalcitrant, blustering individuals," he said.
Maverick and Charlie are both hardheaded careerists pursuing a workplace romance, and there's something efficiently transactional about their connection.
Maverick and Charlie are both hardheaded careerists pursuing a workplace romance, and there's something efficiently transactional about their connection.
But he was also an exemplary craftsman, a hardheaded liberal and a playwright who valued the power of conflict.
Mr. Edge knows that like anyone else who has ideas about how to tell stories, he can be hardheaded.
As a hardheaded black boy and son, there were times he knew better and went ahead and did it anyway.
His reluctance to evict her is criticized by his daughter, Blossom (Shelley Fort), a hardheaded number cruncher looking for love.
She comes across as hardheaded and visionary, a riotous mix of Bette Midler and Dame Maggie Smith's upper-crust characters.
It's painful to witness the script's transformation of Shashi at that point from a hardheaded freethinker into a lovelorn obsessive.
But today's Napa and Sonoma regions, still the epicenter of American wine, are increasingly populated by a different breed of hardheaded types.
Now, given Trump's hardheaded approach and immense unpopularity in Europe, Macron may calculate that his best bet is to stand against him.
Ovechkin needing this championship to justify his greatness was a lie all along, perpetrated by the dimmest and most hardheaded hockey thinkers.
And Debra Winger is their mother, Maggie, who shuttles between the Airstream behind her bar and the bed of her hardheaded spouse.
Professors should not have sex with their undergraduate students, even those who are older and more hardheaded and determined than the others.
Now he hoped to return to his old neighborhoods and talk to youngsters who were as hardheaded as he used to be.
But -- counterintuitively -- it is better understood as a hardheaded, evidence-led attempt to protect children from the undoubted dangers of drug use.
But at the time, driven by a will to win and a hardheaded racing tradition of never showing vulnerability, I concealed my suffering.
Jared Kushner: the young, pragmatic, hardheaded businessman out to modernize the US government and moderate the worst tendencies of his father-in-law, Donald Trump.
Jared Kushner: the young, pragmatic, hardheaded businessman out to modernize the US government and moderate the worst tendencies of his father-in-law — Donald Trump.
Maybe this is mythmaking or wishful thinking, but having spent a few days here in the dark I prefer to regard it as hardheaded realism.
President-elect Donald Trump should now surprise the world and embrace the combination of hard and soft power, and use it in his usual, hardheaded manner.
The good news is that she is not a utopian; she is — or has become, across a long and grinding career — temperamentally pragmatic, self-consciously hardheaded.
JON CARAMANICA Rage, desperation and hope against the odds drive "Dispossession," a hardheaded rallying cry previewing the album due in January by the Atlanta band Algiers.
First up are two Houston businesses: the sibling-owned dessert shop Macaron by Patisse and Bravado Spice, a hot-sauce company run by two hardheaded friends.
Whatever the real, hardheaded odds against the revolution's success, it was the manifestation of a tremendous will to live; to shake off stagnation, corruption and hopelessness.
Panou has been working with Burtynsky for more than a decade, solving logistical problems with a hardheaded intensity that is belied by his soft, rounded features.
It could sound like one, too, playing hard-rock riffs or churning ahead like the Clash; its lyrics are wry, hardheaded bulletins from Morocco's urban youth.
"They've made a pretty hardheaded evaluation that the United States was exaggerating the extent of the problem," said Mr. Chase, a former American diplomat to London.
" So, at this point in the conversation, any hardheaded interviewing journalist who smells candidate okey-doke will frown, push back and say, "You didn't answer my question.
" The chorus cools with electric piano chords and an almost wistful melody, but it stays hardheaded: "Pop pop pop goes the shooter/Reform, reform should've came sooner.
The story he had to tell was straightforward: He'd been a hardheaded young man once, but he had been a model inmate for more than two decades.
You could also interpret it as a case for abandoning these hard constraints altogether and trying to think of all these cases in purely hardheaded consequentialist terms.
Paul Krugman If prediction markets (and most hardheaded analysis) are to be believed, Hillary Clinton, having demonstrated her staying power, is the overwhelming favorite for the Democratic nomination.
And in the battle of two hardheaded leaders, Trump has a clear edge — his policies are likely to do more damage to Turkey than the other way around.
The hardheaded people like ourselves, psychedelics, traditionally, and in fact I think this may always be true, are the only thing that shows you there's a there there.
This picture of Bobby Kennedy crouching to talk to a kid in the Central Valley—this hardheaded guy nobody particularly loved, whose journey made him a different man?
He is known to be hardheaded and occasionally gruff, and to make racist and sexist comments, including ones about Chinese with "slitty" eyes and women who cannot cook.
It represented some, though by no means all, of what "hit radio" delivered in 2017: hardheaded women and eagerly importunate men in the eternal strivings of young love.
And she's hardheaded about how to help people and make them necessary," Brooks said, calling her work with Goldman "the model for how we can bring our society back.
Deborah Kerr stars as Anna Leonowens, the British teacher who relocates to Bangkok in the 19th century to educate the many children of the hardheaded King Mongkut (Yul Brynner).
The loop behind him is a wordless, minor-key chorale; his tone is suspicious and hardheaded: "They don't want the soil, just the oil that's beneath that," Belly raps.
And few social conservatives are interested in criticizing the president, since they've talked themselves into a posture of hardheaded moral realism in order to justify their support for him.
Mr. Sanders has not diluted his progressive message, but as he stakes out a lead in some Iowa polls the self-proclaimed democratic socialist is turning to hardheaded pragmatism.
Today, only the most hardheaded fail to see that Hiss was no martyr, and that the spies David Greenglass and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were, to various degrees, guilty.
As Dr. Unschuld scorned herbs and acupuncture for his own bilateral lung embolism, Mao mixed praise for Chinese medicine with hardheaded preference for Western medical science on his own body.
ESPN can't throw just anyone onto "First Take" and expect him or her to match hardheaded wits against Smith, a verbal force who occasionally gets into trouble with his bosses.
Recording with the Heartbreakers, the band he formed in the mid-29s, above, and on his own, Mr. Petty wrote pithy, hardheaded songs that gave 22s roots a contemporary polish.
Recording with the Heartbreakers, the band he formed in the mid-1970s, and on his own, Mr. Petty wrote pithy, hardheaded songs that gave a contemporary clarity to 1960s roots.
Here's a thought experiment: Imagine for a moment that a hardheaded social scientist from, say, 1974 is plucked out of time and dropped here, in the midst of the internet age.
There's power in Gibson's simplicity and hardheaded certainty, and there are moments in his film so utterly absorbing that quibbles about the lack of character nuance feel entirely beside the point.
Logue was a tough Philadelphia Irishman, a working-class graduate of Yale who believed all his life in a hardheaded liberalism not far from that of the Kennedys, whom he admired.
It was the most ambitious road trip any of us had ever planned: 4,2500 miles one way, 252 days, six countries, five young children, four hardheaded adults and two questionable trucks.
They start with a very hardheaded look, [saying] he's not good and the tweeting is horror, he's a jerk, and the tweeting is distasteful, but you know, we'll get this and this.
Thanks to the "hardheaded realism" of men like John Adams, and James Madison's appreciation for "the value of deliberation, pluralism, and reciprocity," the American Revolution saw the first flourishing of modern democracy.
If all this hardheaded, disenchanted talk is getting you down, consider the refined and rarefied argument in TOLERANCE AMONG THE VIRTUES (Princeton University, $39.50), by the philosopher and ethicist John R. Bowlin.
Now it seems to mean, at best, restrained corrective measures — and far more often than that, actively undoing the policies of the past, an act of hardheaded resignation rather than of collective hope.
Gutiérrez, who came from a humble upbringing in Sinaloa State, was known as the mature leader who often stood up for Lozano, a small speedster whose hardheaded personality clashed with coaches and teammates.
And progressives like Warren and Sanders who reject technological determinism and face up to the political roots of our problems are, on this issue at least, the actual hardheaded realists in the room.
America's leadership in this work isn't just about helping people to live better lives; it is driven by the hardheaded recognition that democratic development in others is good for our own national interests.
But Christie and Trump proved to be butchers of a more indiscriminate and self-serving sort, and both demonstrated that there's a short leap from headstrong to hardheaded and from defiant to delusional.
The persistence of sentimental nonsense that has tainted the Rendez-Vous With French Cinema series since its inception more than two decades ago is gone; in its place are hardheaded films on difficult subjects.
This view is intended to be hardheaded and unsentimental, but the political theorist Teresa M. Bejan would presumably find Bybee's conception of civility, rooted as it is in ideas of respect, no less idealistic.
Conspiracy theorists normally try to find better evidence, but his accusers, he writes, were "the most hardheaded and least sophisticated people I had ever encountered," with the intellectual and emotional maturity of second graders.
Two terms as president may not have disabused Obama of his arc-of-justice idealism (see above: Hiroshima visit), but they have forced upon him at least one policy of hardheaded, indeed hardhearted, realism.
But he is definitely best known for his hardheaded belief in the nonexistent Apple television, long after everyone else had given up on it and the tech media had basically stopped hanging stories on his quotes.
But, if as is likely, the Prime Minister loses that vote and her plan dies, there needs to be a hardheaded and urgent alternative strategy ready to go, and the Commons needs to find a consensus.
And Buttigieg is unique in pairing the Clinton/Obama approach of hopeful promises of a changed politics with a more hardheaded approach to institutions and the rules of the game than Clinton or Obama ever had.
In a line he repeated over and over on Monday, Mr. Rock explained his spiritual search in the hardheaded pragmatic terms we've come to expect from him: "I want to find God before God finds me."
But the opposite is true: No matter how irrelevant hardheaded people may believe it to be, literature continually proves itself a sensitive instrument, a leading indicator of changes that will manifest themselves in society and culture.
The wryly old-fashioned slow-drag setting belies the hardheaded economic realism of "The Capitalist Blues," a theme statement for an album full of songs about trying to get by in a ruthlessly market-based world.
The point is that while idealism is fine and essential — you have to dream of a better world — it's not a virtue unless it goes along with hardheaded realism about the means that might achieve your ends.
This is why Teran plans that by the time Q is publicly traded — if it ever is — he will have so fully built out the model that even the most hardheaded successor will continue to implement it.
On Saturday night, with many of the same guests plus the gospel-tinged BGV Music Choral Group, Mr. Cale offered an uncompromising survey of his post-Velvets career: his most hardheaded songs, not his most ingratiating ones.
His production work for Nas, Jay-Z, the Notorious B.I.G. and other leading acts — including Gang Starr, his duo with the rapper Guru, who died in 2010 — helped define the hardheaded, artistically free sound of an era.
As she approaches her first full year on the job, Ms. Haspel has proved an adept tactician, charming the president with small gestures and talking to him with a blend of a hardheaded realism and appeals to emotion.
By letting the battle play out the way it does (perhaps because Sansa knows her hardheaded brother is too stubborn to listen to her?) Sansa ensures victory and delivers the death blow to Ramsay's army at just the right time.
Oliver's job is to purchase debt, in the form of bonds, that the Peruvian government owes to struggling landowners — a task being stymied by a hardheaded mountain farmer (Amiel Cayo) and a wily businessman (Carlos Bardem) with plans of his own.
"People here are self-reliant and very hardheaded, and they have sacrificed for our independence and want to retain it," said Bob Spink, a former Conservative member of Parliament from Essex who was an early supporter of a British exit.
I tend to try to shift my blame toward the larger picture, toward the structure that's in place that empowers certain types of people or has this mythology around a certain type of hardheaded college dropout with a technical background.
The sleek, refreshing synth-pop grooves of Phoenix (Saturday); the metal-tinged prog-rock epics of Tool (Sunday); and the hardheaded rhymes of Wu-Tang Clan (Saturday) are among the other sounds you'll find in the eclectic lineup of this three-day festival.governorsballmusicfestival.
The sleek, refreshing synth-pop grooves of Phoenix (Saturday); the metal-tinged prog-rock epics of Tool (Sunday); and the hardheaded rhymes of Wu-Tang Clan (Saturday) are among the other sounds you'll find in the eclectic lineup of this three-day festival.
Maybe it's because so many of the songs are in minor modes; maybe it's because his lyrics probe psychological states instead of concocting character studies; maybe it's because he keeps his guitar playing upfront; maybe it's because his hardheaded stoicism suits a dire era.
Together, they honored an artist whose roots were deep, widespread and thoroughly acknowledged, but whose vision and achievement were entirely her own: not a template to copy, but an example of hardheaded freedom from an African-American woman who would not be held back by race or gender.
But while the sources are obvious, the band cranks them up, combines them and harnesses them to wry, hardheaded songwriting with an eye for the underdog: songs like "Punchin' Bag," about a no longer abused woman, and "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked," about trying to make a living.
It's a hardheaded hagiography in which she spends a lot of time knocking Joyce around, especially the early Joyce, the Joyce who would run into you at the pub, go on about his imminent greatness, pity you and then hit you up for a couple of quid on his way out.
Trump would like to, I think, enter a period of détente in which we use hardheaded negotiations to get a peace agreement with the Soviets so that we could work together to pursue and destroy ISIS, which frankly they're doing a better job of at this point than we are.
While Russia, which has so far returned 71 children and 26 women since August, may seem surprisingly lenient in its policy, its actions reflect a hardheaded security calculus: better to bring children back to their grandparents now than have them grow up in camps and possibly return as radicalized adults.
But while it's easy to knock down bad arguments for Buttigieg, it's harder to rebut the real arguments for his nomination: that a liberal perceived as a moderate, with a hardheaded view of American institutions but a hopeful, charismatic approach to campaigning, is exactly what the Democratic Party needs right now.
The raffishness, the abruptness, the fusillade of insults and wisecracks; the fascination with violence and the illicit; the division of the world into the knowing (typically urban and male) and the saps (often rural)—such qualities made the comedies and the melodramas of the Depression a hardheaded new American art, an art that moved faster and ran shallower than life.
This disastrous imperial dynamic was first manifest in the fiscal policy imposed on Southern Europe in the wake of the Great Recession — a policy that manifestly made more sense for Germany's economy than for Italy's or Spain's or Greece's, even as it was confidently presented by German bankers as a hardheaded necessity that no merely national government could be permitted to reject.
" As the characters on the West African side of the family talk of breaking free of colonialism, inspired in part by the gains being made by the ­civil rights movement, the dialogue on this side of the Atlantic runs more to: "We got so many roaches and rats, we got to keep the toothbrushes in the fridge," or a single mother haranguing her son: "You's a hardheaded fool. . . .
In truth, it would have made the report stronger since it reflects the hardheaded common sense of the Framers who knew that a president who faced criminal charges would have to spend far too much time on his own defense, would not have credibility with foreign counterparts, and could not be counted on "to take care that the laws are faithfully executed," a happy circumstance that unfortunately still eludes us.
One of the things I try to do in my book is to be very sympathetic about the way in which these various structural problems make it very hard on the white working-class community, but also to be a little bit hardheaded about the ways in which white working-class Americans — not all of them, of course, not even most of them, but certainly some of them — have reacted to these problems in a very negative way.

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