Crown Prosecutor does not impress a hard-headed Scotchman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Secrets of the German War Office] Reference

Here is the answer given by one hard-headed science writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Practical Values of Space Exploration Report of the Committee on Science and Astronautics, U.S. House of Representatives, Eighty-Sixth Congress, Second Session] Reference

The skeptics can call on some hard-headed economists for support.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Orthodoxy] Reference

Americans are something more than shrewd, hard-headed business men.    From Wordnik.com.  [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference

She was a good woman; and, like all good women, she was hard-headed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Fool There Was] Reference

She was as hard-headed, practical a person as one could well imagine.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Promise] Reference

I just stand my ground and everybody's like, "Why are you so hard-headed?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Dancing's Maks Sticking with Pre-Season Game Plan] Reference

Not to such a feast did stout-hearted and hard-headed Jonathan invite his friends.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times] Reference

It's where we're baan to live as bothers me, 'said the hard-headed daughter-in-law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference

To the perfectly sane and hard-headed such a suspicion would seem utterly ridiculous.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

In fact, Ryan's hard-headed reasons for acting have been obscured in all of the publicity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between The Lines, Online: Machinery Of Mercy] Reference

If I am, then I reckon I know a hundred or so hard-headed farmers who're doin 'the identical same.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deep Furrows] Reference

Now, how can we expect such jugglery of sacred things to commend itself to honest, hard-headed men?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

Even the shrewd and hard-headed did not care to thwart him, preferring to be friends rather than foes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lancashire Idylls (1898)] Reference

"Is it a losing fight?" asked a famous banker, known among his intimates as the hard-headed enthusiast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Little Lost Sister] Reference

I was pretty hard-headed that morning and couldn't assist the lady and she left the office vowing vengeance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers] Reference

With the pilgrims and missionaries went hard-headed traders, who brought back to Europe the wealth of the East.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

"We need to be big-hearted and hard-headed," Obama he said, on his first of three days at United Nations events.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evelyn Leopold: Money, Money, Money at the UN -- Will $40 Billion Rescue Pregnant Mothers and Their Infants?] Reference

For many years he has had an enviable record as a tight-fisted, hard-headed administrator of these important funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Gray Plague] Reference

It's debatable whether or not the above represents a lack of fight from the White House or a hard-headed sense of the possible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bill Scher: The 12 Democratic (And 41 GOP) Senators Stifling the Economy] Reference

Having seen the U.N. close-up in New York and the Balkans, Holbrooke is hard-headed about its weaknesses -- but also its value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reforming the United Nations] Reference

The stepmother, a hard-headed, practical woman, could see nothing but laziness in the desire of Alice and Phoebe to read and write.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference

Many a hard-headed Teutonic monarch crossed the Alps at the head of his army to demand a higher sanction for his own rule of force.    From Wordnik.com.  [Humanly Speaking] Reference

But the old man was hard-headed and stubborn, firmly rooted in his evil courses, so that he resisted the pious efforts in his behalf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference

"Yes, in spite of you both, by reason of his practical, determined, hard-headed nature which he probably inherits from his father, eh?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference

It now seems as if it was all building toward her playing Nikita, a hard-headed bad girl making good — albeit in a deadly sort of way.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Focus: Nikita Star Maggie Q Embraces Her Inner Femme Fatale] Reference

And strangely, for one so famously hard-headed, there is often quite a discrepancy between Price's self-perception and external reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Katie Price: 'People think I'm not normal'] Reference

The servant girl who was a hard-headed, cool, Scotch girl, was instructed and shown how to give the medicine, which she did successfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume I. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

But the Massachusetts Bay Colony was hard-headed as well as pious, and several naïve hints creep into the early records of sharers of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth] Reference

For in my own practical, hard-headed way I had got at the maps of the country and had studied the roads and had read up every line I could find.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Direst Peril] Reference

Now the Colonel was a hard-headed old Scotchman, who had spent the best part of his life in India, and knew the Hindoos and their ways by heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference

The Escribano bustled into his office, delighted with having another opportunity of displaying his ingenuity at the expense of the hard-headed veteran.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7] Reference

Of "The Biglow Papers," in which there is so much of the national hard-headed shrewdness, humor, and earnestness, we have but one, and that not the best.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866] Reference

And herein lies the difficulty between the hard-headed business man of twenty years 'experience and the youngster upon whose diploma the ink has not yet dried.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Business Etiquette] Reference

At any rate, he early developed a steadfastness which, throughout his life, stood for both strength of purpose and hard-headed, sometimes hard-hearted wilfulness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference

These were conditions, not theories, that confronted this hard-headed man of affairs, who, without sentiment, never failed to understand the inexorable logic of facts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference

The least emotional of philosophers -- a hard-headed Scotsman -- he makes short work of the sentimentality which is invoked now-a-days against the natural law of marriage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference