Sentence examples for less hardheaded from inspiring English sources

Latinos are less confrontational than blacks, less "hardheaded," he said.

"The folks that work down there say he hasn't gotten any less hardheaded".

Barak will be no less hardheaded when it comes to Israel's fundamental security than was his predecessor.

Although Democratic operatives describe him as an unapologetic liberal, they still see him as much less hardheaded than Corzine.

The number was actually much less, insists his hardheaded longtime manager, Bill Amerson, who says that Holmes soon all but lost the ability to separate truth from fiction.

Yet it is no less accurate or hardheaded to say that laws and money cannot do enough, either; that it will also take profound changes in the way we live.

That attitude was reflected in displays of kindness, a little less of the hardheaded, take-no-prisoners attitude associated with doing deals, said Kenneth A. Lefkowitz, co-chairman of the mergers and acquisitions group at Hughes Hubbard & Reed.

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.

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.

Hardheaded political calculations might now be driving Maliki, who faces reelection next year, to take a less sectarian approach.

Although equally talented, ambitious, and hardheaded, they often rise to positions of authority by excelling at collaboration, and they are less inclined to resort to intimidation to get what they want.