Sentence examples for be more hardheaded from inspiring English sources

In a best-case scenario, a Romney foreign policy might be more hardheaded and less shot through with wishful thinking than the current administration's posture; in a worst-case scenario, it would blunder more deeply into messes where we're already enmeshed, substituting the rhetoric of toughness for actual clarity of purpose and chest-thumping for finesse.

He was more hardheaded than that.

The merchants of Pearl Street were more hardheaded than most, but their sobriety sometimes led to extremes.

But there's nothing sentimental about local food — indeed, the reasons to support local food economies could not be any more hardheaded or pragmatic.

I was getting more hardheaded.

Both of these sites offer hardheaded, fact-rich correctives to this site's more muse-inspired travelogue.

Then Deutsch tried to publish more marketable books to pay for the literary ones it cared about; then management consultants were brought in; finally, the business was sold to a supposedly more hardheaded and businesslike publisher, who -- as often seems to be the case -- proved as spectacularly incompetent at keeping things afloat as any idealist could have been.

KEN WARD: I'm a UCC Congregationalist, and come at this maybe a bit more hardheaded in terms of cause and effect, but over two years of difficulties and barriers we've seen many, many doors open where we did not expect them.

By contrast, if diplomats were debating the implementation of iterative risk assessment, negotiations would become more hardheaded.

Since the death of his parents when he was 9, Will has existed in a state of arrested development that a more hardheaded film might identify as extreme post-traumatic stress.

The French have consistently taken a more hardheaded view of this solution than have the Anglo-Saxons.