Sentence examples for be a hardheaded from inspiring English sources

For this relatively slim volume is laced with criticism (some of it gratuitous) of the soft-headed, "New Age" foreign policy of the Clinton administration and is addressed to a prospective president who Kissinger clearly hoped would be a hardheaded Republican.

In tow is a hardheaded manager (Arielle Kebbel) with eyes for Alex.

He was a hardheaded revolutionary who killed when he had to kill".

He was a hardheaded idealist, convinced that perpetrators of genocide respond only to the language of power.

By then, Weber had taken a liking to Lipsky, a man of firm opinions ("I'm a hardheaded liberal, you might say") and tart good humor.

This is a hardheaded, clear-eyed, calculated decision to take — to seize our best opportunity to lock down the possibility of Iran getting a nuclear weapon".

The network's effusions were at a pitch that would have set Mr. Donaldson's skeptical instincts clanging in the days when he was a hardheaded White House reporter.

The movie, set in 1975, is a hardheaded little gem that never softens into bathos as it explores an impulsive act and its sad consequences.

And so when I'm talking to the prime minister, or my team is talking to the Israeli government, what I want is a hardheaded, clear-eyed assessment of how do we achieve our goals.

On the surface, Gussow is a hardheaded practitioner of common sense, a respected writer on nutrition and health and a great believer in the necessity, as well as the practice, of eating locally grown foods.

Similarly, while no big-box executive can risk being seen by shareholders to be openly taking the side of the lowest-paid employees, there is a hardheaded argument to be made for doing so: the company's revenues depend on higher hourly wages.