What is "hardheadedness"

Usage examples of "hardheadedness".

But the hardheadedness that poverty and neglect had bred in her did not disappear with her changed circumstances.

Edward Jellico, who captained the vessel for a brief time, was bluster and hardheadedness, not to her liking at all.

Reality stimulated a certain hardheadedness that abstract speculation never could.

Throughout, his stubbornness, pride, defiance, self-reliance, and hardheadedness are revealed.

The power came rushing into me, purity of emotion, complex energies of will, and raw hardheadedness, all combining into a field, an aura of tingling, invisible energy that I could feel enveloping my skin.

And now, perhaps, the hardheadedness of the Sembians was going to create another one.

Still, trader hardheadedness told her it would do scant good to get herself pushed back into the prisoner herd, or to excite enough suspicion to start the westerners working on her with knotted cords and heated metal.

But he came originally, his proponent said, from Vilna, the holy city of Jewish Europe, a place known, in spite of its reputation for hardheadedness, to harbor men who took a cordial and sympathetic view of golems.

Somewhere along the way, Amelia Corbet had to learn that her hardheadedness was a costly vice.

I rued my hardheadedness in not getting a cell phone and leaving it in the car.

But here, at this critical point, my own hardheadedness prompted me to reflect that he would know the risks involved.

What did it demonstrate other than a sort of perverse hardheadedness on his part?

Was her gut reaction to the accusations sheer hardheadedness, lust or the sixth sense that made a law officer truly good at her work?