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 | [email protected], al, 11 June 2020
  • What does matter is to stop being so hardheaded and close-minded.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2022
  • Mutual-fund managers are paid to ferret out the best stocks with hardheaded analysis.
    — Jeff Brown, WSJ, 7 May 2017
  • There’s a poignancy in this confession, but also a hardheaded aspect.
    — Jason Zinoman, New York Times, 2 June 2024
  • My theory is that even the most hardheaded moneymen in racing began to worry.
    — William Finnegan, The New Yorker, 15 May 2021
  • But behind the display of friendship was a backdrop of hardheaded geopolitics.
    — Valerie Hopkins, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023
  • The messy middle refers to the difficult decisions that need to be made, guided by science and hardheaded economics.
    — Nick Rockel, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The second interpretation purports to be more hardheaded and sensible, wiser and world-weary after so many years of watching Trump at work.
    — Ross Douthat, Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • In Beijing, the president scrapped hardheaded diplomacy in favor of an imagined personal bond.
    — Thomas Wright, The Atlantic, 18 May 2026
  • 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
  • At this point in a description of a possible future technology, a hardheaded engineer loses interest.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Nov. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Parker himself has already succeeded at convincing hardheaded institutions to work together.
    — Jacqueline Detwiler, Popular Mechanics, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Over his lifetime, Aron was a hardheaded defender of liberal values in the face of fascist and totalitarian ideological challengers.
    — Raymond Aron, Foreign Affairs, 20 Feb. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • Those interactions were illustrative of Lam—endlessly hardworking, but arrogant and hardheaded.
    — Timothy McLaughlin, The Atlantic, 18 June 2020
  • Most hardheaded analysis — including from those sympathetic ideologically — suggests this is wrong.
    — Neil Irwin, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2016
  • 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
  • At the George offices, Berman loses it once and for all at John’s lateness, his indifference to the daily operations of the magazine, and his hardheaded refusal to consider the TV show.
    — Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 13 Mar. 2026
  • 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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