Their ambition to succeed seems to be matched only by their hard-headed realism about selling and how to do it. |
But then they also know that I'm in favor of it for hard-headed, realistic reasons. |
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. |
A shrewd, hard-headed businessman typical of his age, he speedily restored abbey finances after years of mismanagement. |
I've come to cherish the hard-headed practicality of the hero's wife in Henry Handel Richardson's The Fortunes of Richard Mahony. |