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- noun The characteristic of being
hardheaded .
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Examples
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You biased view or hardheadedness is no more a judgement than mine.
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The phrase is a synonym for Bush's stubbornness, and McAdams understands it in its formal clinical dimensions, which allows him to escape confronting the potential ideological sources of Bush's hardheadedness or judging whether Bush's stubbornness was right or wrong.
Putting George W. Bush on the psychologist's couch Post 2011
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The tie-backs on +Art are purely ornamental, and in good taste, but they do little to blunt the hardheadedness of the lobby windows, which are painted in large block letters with the words "Chelsea is the birthplace of creative modern art and the home of bad behavior."
High Line Hits a Snag Robbie Whelan 2011
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The phrase is a synonym for Bush's stubbornness, and McAdams understands it in its formal clinical dimensions, which allows him to escape confronting the potential ideological sources of Bush's hardheadedness or judging whether Bush's stubbornness was right or wrong.
Putting George W. Bush on the psychologist's couch Post 2011
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Of course, as legendary showbiz opportunist P.T. Barnum probably pointed out at some point in his life, nobody ever went broke betting on American hardheadedness.
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Of course, as legendary showbiz opportunist P.T. Barnum probably pointed out at some point in his life, nobody ever went broke betting on American hardheadedness.
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My experience with people in their 80s and 90s have for the most part, though thankfully not always, included instances of hardheadedness and ignorance, and I find myself often saying, "Well they're old and set in their ways, what ya gonna do?"
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For all his hardheadedness, Bolano is not immune to the Ibero-American tendency towards spiritual bombast.
Archive 2009-02-01 enowning 2009
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For all his hardheadedness, Bolano is not immune to the Ibero-American tendency towards spiritual bombast.
enowning enowning 2009
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No. A strong supporter of Israel like Mr. Harris should have no problem putting facts before metaphysics, for such hardheadedness was the basis on which, from 1948, Israel built its power, before, of late, overplaying its hand, first in Lebanon and then in Gaza.
'Eyeless in Gaza': An Exchange Harris, David A. 2009
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