| That's because Doctorow writes with the kind of hardheaded humor and logic that makes one suspect this book will be a mind-boggling delight. |
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| A petite woman dressed in pearls and a well-tailored suit, she comes across as shrewd and hardheaded but not unsympathetic to her subjects. |
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| My informal queries revealed that those associated with you regard you as a brilliant, hardheaded maverick. |
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| He brought a wealth of experience and hardheaded pragmatism to a problem bedevilled by fond hopes, misperceptions and sheer ignorance. |
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| In today's hardheaded, practical world, do such questions as dialogue and exchange between civilizations still make relevant sense? |
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| We need very hardheaded idealists who can look into the worse and best of humanity and can create and implement strategies of success. |
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| Each manifesto is dressed up as its opposite – hardheaded Labour versus caring Conservatives. |
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| This is perfectly normal, hardheaded politics, directed towards a public-minded goal. |
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| This is the Hollywood actor as entrepreneur, as career strategist, and McConaughey suddenly sounds like the most hardheaded ballbuster in town. |
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| Feelings aside, how are CEOs performing as hardheaded guardians of the businesses they serve? |
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| A self-described mama's boy, he combines a puppyish playfulness with an obsessive work ethic and a hardheaded understanding of the business of triathlon. |
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| After analyzing the identification papers, it seemed that this hardheaded pirated was already caught selling copied discs two times before. |
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| But hardheaded operatives like Karl Rove could shift their resources to Senate and House contests. |
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| And so does the cause of decency in the hardheaded world of international affairs. |
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| Brasiliaout of irony for the beautiful capital of the country that was beingconstructed and Teimosa which means hardheaded. |
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| With half of all marriages doomed to fail, even the moderately hardheaded may be interested in ways of mitigating the danger. So hopes ARAG, a German-based insurance firm. |
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| Sated on success, he is seeking new challenges when he meets the much-divorced Marilyn Rexroth, a hardheaded woman pursuing financial independence through serial matrimony. |
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| Ziegen Zicke seems to be temperamental and hardheaded. |
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| Rather, it requires hardheaded administrators. Specialists are in demand, for instance logistics experts, 140 of whom are active in crisis regions all around the world. |
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| The EU's structure which pretends that all member states, of whatever size, are equally important does not fit well with the hardheaded business of relations with big, powerful neighbours. |
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| While welcome, this is actually a hardheaded and highly practical move. |
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| For the hardheaded, distributing Qurans would have another benefit. |
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| We need to take a more hardheaded approach to these problems. |
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