Sentence examples for of hardheaded from inspiring English sources
"The Times was built on a constituency of hardheaded liberals — largely Jews, though not exclusively.
Koeppel argues, convincingly, that the show of hardheaded rationality here is merely a show.
At the same time, he and his rescuers displayed an unbelievable level of hardheaded toughness and resilience.
William's embittered mother, Jesse Laura Linneyy), hammers him with the kind of hardheaded advice no fervent romantic wants to hear.
At dozens of these information sessions, the students write on those trees a mix of hardheaded realism, worry and dreams ranging from cautious to wildly optimistic.
The magazine is a repository of hardheaded Yankee practicality about cooking, leavened by sentimentality about old-fashioned small-town life and the food that goes along with it.
A cultural history in the Greek tradition would focus on the ideas and values that Cahill describes so eloquently, but it would reject celebrations of them as gifts in favor of a hardheaded examination of their meaning and foundation in what is now a truly global culture.
That new order was a marriage of "idealism to hardheaded realism, an acceptance of America's power with a humility regarding America's ability to control events around the world," Obama wrote in his 2006 book "The Audacity of Hope".
And given the fiery tenures of past hardheaded managers of the George Steinbrenner era — Billy Martin, Lou Piniella and Dallas Green — Girardi's makeup would seem to demand a reasonably fast run to glory, or the likelihood that within the three years of his deal he will be gone.
Victor Gollancz, one of the most hardheaded of interwar publishers, took the view that a collection of short stories sold between a quarter and a sixth of an established author's novels, with a rigid maximum of 4,000.
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.
