Sentences with word «hardheaded»

We can both be as hardheaded as the next guy, and we don't like admitting when we're wrong.

In the welter of climate discussion, nothing is more important than sober, fact - driven, hardheaded analysis to drive the hard choices and important investments for progress now in securing a safer climate future.

By contrast, if diplomats were debating the implementation of iterative risk assessment, negotiations would become more hardheaded.

It's been interesting to see something rarely observed here at Realclimate - hardheaded scientists trying to figure out why the deniers say the things they do.

Deirdre Robson has said that «The arts were gradually thought of less in terms of being part of the «female» realm and more as an interest suitable for a hardheaded and successful businessman.»

adamant, adamantine, hardheaded, headstrong, implacable, inflexible, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, pertinacious, perverse, pigheaded, rigid, self - willed, stubborn, unbending, unyielding;

The truth is, just like people, some dogs are just more spirited or hardheaded than others.

For example, overly aggressive pups are likely to grow into hardheaded adult dogs.

What may change after a dog is spayed or neutered is problem aggression, hardheaded behavior and roaming behavior.

Many people see the mastiff as a «dumb ox» and unfortunately (like the beagle) their hardheaded and independent nature often gets them labeled as unintelligent dogs.

They are hardheaded and determined.

Both are pretty hardheaded but loving.There is absolutely no better breed of dog and trust me on that because I have had my fair share, from pitbulls to rotweillers, golden retrievers and english springer spaniels.The corso is the most loving animal a girl could ask for

Perfect with young kids, adults, and elderly folks, this dog is easily trained, incredibly smart, and while they can sometimes be a little bit hardheaded and stubborn they are as dependable and as reliable as a breed of dog can get.

Some can be a little bit hardheaded and dominant, especially males, and especially during adolescence when they're «feeling their hormones.»

While some dogs may be bred of poor temperament, or just hardheaded troubled animals, these cases are rare.

Rosie would also be a great name for any hardheaded female pup who likes to do things her way or no way!

Soon after Lucy, «a hardheaded reporter» for the town's weekly newspaper, receives a reading from Lady Diana, high priestess of the Silver Coven, warning her of approaching danger, Lucy and her Labrador, Libby, stumble over a burned corpse during a woodland walk.

My father calls me Three - sided Sophie: one side is dreamy and romantic; one is logical and down - to - earth; and the third side is hardheaded and impulsive.

My father says he doesn't know who my hardheaded mule side resembles.

Three years on, the hardheaded Lutz hadn't given up on the extended - range electric, and his crusade was reinvigorated by the dismissive digs of a California start - up company: In publicizing his plans for the electric Roadster, Tesla CEO Elon Musk didn't pass up a single opportunity to slam Detroit.

From the text of Colorado's plan, it's clear that the state takes a hardheaded approach to ensuring the validity and reliability of new measures, such as chronic absenteeism, which is reassuring under the circumstances.

We can understand the reasons, though, and it's in understanding that we can sympathize with these characters, as callous and cruel and hardheaded as they occasionally — or far too often — may be.

The contestants, even our hardheaded protagonist, bought into the strategy at the expense of ignoring the horror of it.

Director Alexander Korda shoots Marius, whose rolled - up sleeves and hardheaded attitude are comparable to the immigrant gangsters in U.S. cinema from the period, in wide shots that allow the character's actions to dictate the camera's movement, which gives his restlessness more presence than if Korda's camera were constantly in motion.

Rejected in life, after death he was recognized as the preeminent early modernist and embraced as the model artist - martyr in an uncaring, hardheaded world.

Proud, hardheaded, and fun!

Arguing with some hardheaded people had become troublesome.

I've talked with trainers many times who are so hardheaded, they are impossible to learn from or help out.

There are three hardheaded reasons to believe that this genie is not a fantasy.

He's so angry and hardheaded.

While age and a dip in velocity conspire against the newest, oldest Yankee, Roger Clemens remains as hardheaded as ever

The Italian federation hired as coach Bogdan (Boscia) Tanjevic, a hardheaded Montenegrin who was vindicated in his determination to field a team without a true point guard.

In the 20th century, Carrara has earned the reputation of being the home of Italy's most hardheaded anarchists, stubborn people who despise being ruled by anybody except themselves.

When Harry Guggenheim is drawn out on his philosophies about racing, he speaks with the conviction of a hardheaded, not overly imaginative man who is delighted to find in this particular sport an element of life lacking in the day - to - day conduct of other businesses.

Grace took the wheel in the form of Sophia's hardheaded determination to bust through that closed door and be part of this messy communion.

This is no less true of Warren's literary criticism, whether in such ambitious works as the famous essay on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner («A Poem of Pure Imagination: An Experiment in Reading»), the more modest but nonetheless incisive essays on such writers as Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter, or in the textbooks themselves — just hardheaded practical sense for anybody who loves literature and believes it is an autonomous discipline and not a substitute for anything else.

Once it was a hardheaded, self - sacrificial, outward looking concept which looked to the well - being and needs of others.

By cool head, I mean a hardheaded search to understand the way the world works.

A patient, hardheaded, critical approach is needed, sensitive to the complexities of the social setting in which technology and values interact.

Christians on the ideological left, despite a seemingly hardheaded resort to various «hermeneutics of suspicion» (laying bare the underlying economic, racial and gender power struggles), imply that the goal of Christianity entails some earthly triumph of the love of Jesus.

The idea that irreligion is hardheaded and factual while religion is visionary and wishful, is a strange misconception.

And at least twice in our century hardheaded politicians and diplomats, shaken by the horrors of modern warfare, have dared to dream the dream.

All those nativists who don't want upfront amnesty — all those social conservatives who still care about their principles — all those working - class moderates who don't mindlessly defer to the preferences and priorities of «hardheaded» Republican donors... they didn't go away and die.

Kuhn reminds his critics that he always has maintained that there are «good reasons» and «hardheaded arguments» for choosing paradigms.

Puritanism had always held to the moral uprightness and reasonableness of the Christian, and by 1740 this had produced the hardheaded, respectable, rather cold and calculating merchant.

In the new capitalist towns she earned cash, and the more enterprising members of her group built up capital to invest in loftier and more profitable schemes, a trait commercial bankers and even hardheaded church financiers could appreciate.

Taking a hardheaded view of moral accountability, Aristotle assumes that people can «take care.»

She argued that the idea of revolution has blocked sober, hardheaded study of the nature and causes of social oppression, prevented the realization that some social oppression is probably inevitable, and tended to hide the fact that our subjection to the natural world can be mitigated but never wholly overcome.

These influences are nowhere more evident than in the tendency of many otherwise hardheaded writers to describe cyberspace as «non-physical.»

Josh Barro wrote that «Social conservatives are more likely to signal openness to pro-middle class economic policies than the «hardheaded business types» who fund the party.: I think there is some truth to that, and I think that Barro's next observation is interesting and also has some truth: