Sentence examples for for hardheaded from inspiring English sources

I would like to be able to tell you that this is a riveting nature book for hardheaded, skeptical people of broad interests who, ordinarily, would never read a nature book.

Clinton has thrown her kitchen sink at him, but — for hardheaded as well as high-minded reasons — he has not thrown his at her. (I know — turning the other cheek got Jesus crucified. But it also got Montgomery's buses integrated. And India liberated).

For the hardheaded old woman she is, they say, in some directions, she is singularly soft.

They have a reputation for being hardheaded and unforgiving of C.I.A. transgressions.

"I'm not going to jeopardize me playing in the season for being hardheaded, going out there trying to cut.

A German saxophonist with a history of Stateside collaboration, Mr. Brötzmann is famous — insofar as any European free-jazz musician can be famous — for a hardheaded, fulminating style devoid of any trace of bathos.

This kind of hardheaded, realistic environment is critical for a truly durable peace.

"I'm too hardheaded for that," he said.

(Scott Touchy Feelyly' (R, 1 30) This movie, which focuses on new-age mumbo jumbo in Seattle, is a detour into the ozone for Lynn Shelton, whose hardheaded, sharply written satires "Humpday" and "Your Sister's Sister" explore the booby traps in intimate relationships.

By contrast, Kissinger, acting as Nixon's surrogate in the councils of state, seemed to be living in an entirely different world, a world that, for all its hardheaded "realism", had little to do with the less abstract realities of human suffering in East Bengal.

The European project, in other words, is not only a visionary political ideal for the whole but also a hardheaded economic strategy for the parts.