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.
• She was hardheaded and strong willed, and on her way to be a great woman.
  — Carol Robinson | [e-mail], al, 11 June 2020
• Felicia knew from the start and was hardheaded about it.
  — David Denby, The New Yorker, 16 June 2018
• 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
• 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
• But behind the display of friendship was a backdrop of hardheaded geopolitics.
  — Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
• Mutual-fund managers are paid to ferret out the best stocks with hardheaded analysis.
  — Jeff Brown, WSJ, 7 May 2017
• 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
• My theory is that even the most hardheaded moneymen in racing began to worry.
  — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• That diplomatic disengagement might seem like hardheaded realism about the limits of U.S. power.
  — Daniel Benaim, New Republic, 19 Jan. 2018
• That may sound utopian, but Rosenfeld suggests a hardheaded justification.
  — Caleb Crain, The New Yorker, 19 Aug. 2019
• Another requirement may well be a combative attitude, a streak of hardheaded resistance.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2016
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Those interactions were illustrative of Lam—endlessly hardworking, but arrogant and hardheaded.
  — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 18 June 2020
• Parker himself has already succeeded at convincing hardheaded institutions to work together.
  — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2020
• 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
• Most hardheaded analysis — including from those sympathetic ideologically — suggests this is wrong.
  — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024