Examples of hard-headed

• Perhaps there were aesthetic considerations, but the chief motives were more hard-headed.

• This is a hard-headed book with a small glimmer of golden heart somewhere at its core.

• Surely 'serious discussion' of these characters demands something more than simplistic reasoning and the hard-headed refusal to engage other scholars.

• There was no single turning point; he kept considering evidence and weighing options, and finally arrived at a decision, which represented the culmination of a long and hard-headed struggle.

• We need hard-headed research to even be able to accurately describe the character of the contemporary patterns of organised variability and the consequences thereof for human life course fulfilment.

• But the one essential thing is that they must all be hard-headed businessmen, ready to do business.

• It will need to work hard to convince hard-headed businessmen of that.

• It is no good following the advice of the hard-headed businessman who says: give the customer what he wants, ask the marketing director.