How to Use hardheaded in a Sentence
hardheaded
adjective- We need to take a more hardheaded approach to these problems.
- She gave him some hardheaded advice.
- He was always hardheaded about getting his way.
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She was hardheaded and strong willed, and on her way to be a great woman.
—Carol Robinson | Crobinson@al.com, al, 11 June 2020
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Felicia knew from the start and was hardheaded about it.
—David Denby, The New Yorker, 16 June 2018
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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.
—Zeynep Tufekci, WIRED, 20 Aug. 2019
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The principled pursuit of free trade above all else does not account for this more hardheaded reality, which is one of the reasons why views seem to be changing.
—Ganesh Sitaraman, The New Republic, 29 Apr. 2021
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But behind the display of friendship was a backdrop of hardheaded geopolitics.
—Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
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Mutual-fund managers are paid to ferret out the best stocks with hardheaded analysis.
—Jeff Brown, WSJ, 7 May 2017
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Any hardheaded, pragmatic look at what must be done to protect the country and its inhabitants would put climate policy at the top of the agenda.
—Ryan Cooper, The Week, 11 June 2021
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My theory is that even the most hardheaded moneymen in racing began to worry.
—William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
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The natural course of the show long ago turned Frank Underwood into a nearly unbearable character, a hardheaded man who would do anything to maintain his grip on power.
—Yohana Desta, HWD, 4 Dec. 2017
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If Herzog is a mystic and a shaman, though, Argentina’s Lucrecia Martel is a more hardheaded sort of cinematic poet.
—Ty Burr, BostonGlobe.com, 4 July 2018
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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.
—James Wagner, New York Times, 27 June 2018
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But their assessment of the successes and failures of the last Democratic president has been more wishful than hardheaded, and the lessons the party has learned are correspondingly mistaken.
—Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review, 29 Apr. 2021
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Tom, his glib wanna-be anchorman (a temptation to Holly Hunter's hardheaded producer), is both a perfect piece of casting, and a key into something essential about his art.
—Joshua Rothkopf, EW.com, 14 Mar. 2022
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Yet the terms of the transaction—notably some valuation numbers backed by hardheaded negotiations—may also have helped sober CCIV investors up.
—Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 24 Feb. 2021
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That diplomatic disengagement might seem like hardheaded realism about the limits of U.S. power.
—Daniel Benaim, New Republic, 19 Jan. 2018
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That may sound utopian, but Rosenfeld suggests a hardheaded justification.
—Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
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Another requirement may well be a combative attitude, a streak of hardheaded resistance.
—Jon Pareles, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2016
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Despite these promising beginnings, ultimately Mr. Dalio’s principles are a disappointing mix of the hardheaded and starry-eyed, the insightful and inconsistent, the sensible and clueless.
—Daniel Akst, WSJ, 1 Oct. 2017
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Whether overconfidence or hardheaded realism are responsible for the tepid countercyclical response, the likely result is the same: an extended period of subpar Chinese growth, beginning with a steep downturn this quarter.
—Nathaniel Taplin, WSJ, 17 May 2022
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Maverick and Charlie are both hardheaded careerists pursuing a workplace romance, and there’s something efficiently transactional about their connection.
—Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 24 Mar. 2020
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Those interactions were illustrative of Lam—endlessly hardworking, but arrogant and hardheaded.
—Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 18 June 2020
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Parker himself has already succeeded at convincing hardheaded institutions to work together.
—Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2020
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Yet amid the financial insecurity, this generation is responding with a blend of hardheaded pragmatism and nontraditional efforts to make economic opportunity more inclusive.
—Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2021
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Most hardheaded analysis — including from those sympathetic ideologically — suggests this is wrong.
—Neil Irwin, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
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