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Definition of hard-headed in English: hard-headedadjective ˌhɑːdˈhɛdɪd Practical and realistic; not sentimental. 讲究实际的，现实的；不易动感情的 a hard-headed businessman 注重实际的商人。 Example sentencesExamples - I've come to cherish the hard-headed practicality of the hero's wife in Henry Handel Richardson's The Fortunes of Richard Mahony.
- He was also hard-headed enough to realise that being on the stock market did the club no favours, so he delisted it, putting himself out of a job.
- This is a kind of huge practicality, a hard-headed balancing act.
- I don't think many people are aware quite how much theatre design is a hard-headed practical matter.
- Good to see youth justice in the charge of such a hard-headed realist.
- It radiates hard-headed realism, icy egoism and unsentimental calculation.
- One thing is sure, the festival of the future will have a more commercial and hard-headed business edge to it and will seek to capitalise much more on the brand name, Rose of Tralee.
- The cult of hard-headed routine and practicality, as expressed here, was often just another form of romanticism, and by no means always the most effective.
- But then they also know that I'm in favor of it for hard-headed, realistic reasons.
- Some might say this proves that no matter how hard-headed you are in business, the heart is not so clever.
- Too hard-headed a businessman to buy into the whole Field of Dreams scenario, he is nevertheless driven by a vision which he knows is shared by many people.
- While many people might imagine the writer's life is one of poetry and romance, Ms Traviss took a very practical and hard-headed approach to the project.
- But hard-headed businessmen don't blow thousands on these events for nothing.
- Even the most hard-headed realist must shudder at the thought of a world without music.
- Scots have a reputation for being hard-headed, realistic folk, bearing perhaps some similarity to the people of Yorkshire.
- A shrewd, hard-headed businessman typical of his age, he speedily restored abbey finances after years of mismanagement.
- For hard-headed realism, the international is a domain of power, mistrust and recurrence of conflict.
- This Chancellor has a hard-headed and realistic approach to financial management.
- Their ambition to succeed seems to be matched only by their hard-headed realism about selling and how to do it.
- She's just a hard-headed, practical girl, sharp enough to see how much trouble she's in, but not sharp enough to do a whole lot about it.
Synonyms unsentimental, practical, pragmatic, businesslike, realistic, sensible, rational, tough, clear-thinking, cool-headed, hard-bitten, down-to-earth, matter-of-fact, no-nonsense, with one's/both feet on the ground shrewd, astute, sharp, sharp-witted informal hard-nosed, hard-boiled
Derivativesadverb Any such definitive analysis, however, would need to respond, at the very least, both to his at once ‘avant- garde’ and hard-headedly commercial use of abstracted, deliberately over-stylised backgrounds and movements, and to the logical circularity which repeatedly dictates the emotional lives of his characters. Example sentencesExamples - In his own life, he hard-headedly defended his rights as an Egyptian citizen, applying for positions and grants in the face of official disapproval.
- Keller plays the anti drug game hard-heartedly and hard-headedly, seeking the big win no matter what he must lose on the way.
- It is this strength in unity, this common front that would have helped the continent enormously had there been a decision to compromise on the veto question and hard-headedly pursue real and lasting reform at the important world body.
- The book is a curious mixture of the Panglossian - the US as a kindly elephant, centre of the global ecosystem - and the hard-headedly critical.
noun American hard-headedness could be the antidote. Example sentencesExamples - His hard-headedness was also in evidence when the Tour's television contract was awarded to Sky, much to the chagrin of the terrestrial traditionalists.
- He lacked the essential hard-headedness required of his post; substituting it for the ‘nice guy’ approach.
- Combining dourness and humour, sentimentality and hard-headedness, arrogance and tolerance, every situation is redeemed by laughter.
- Here Giroux's hard-headedness works to another effect.
- In his philanthropy, however, Soros epitomizes the rare combination of generosity and hard-headedness that is needed to build civil societies from the ground up.
Rhymesbareheaded, boneheaded, fatheaded, hot-headed, light-headed, pig-headed, pinheaded, thickheaded, unleaded, unwedded, wooden-headed, wrong-headed |