hardheaded

When Republicans defend the war in Afghanistan, they generally do so in hard-headed security terms.

But what was the message which could reach a hard-headed young 'lawyer by nature' with a turn for Benthamism?

I wish I were not one of the most hard-headed people in the world.

The shipper, only a hard-headed business man, takes the same view.

Of hard-headed American determination to "get there" at any honourable cost, of jealously hidden romanticism.

I contemplated him a bit ruefully, wondering if the hard-headed Knowlton had made a good bargain in saddling us with this.