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 don't think many people are aware quite how much theatre design is a hard-headed practical matter. |
For hard-headed realism, the international is a domain of power, mistrust and recurrence of conflict. |
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. |
But hard-headed businessmen don't blow thousands on these events for nothing. |