Example Sentences

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It’s not easy, but we have nothing to lose but a lot of wooden-headedness and the next catastrophic failure.

From New York Times • Nov. 18, 2021

As Tuchman wrote, wooden-headedness was best captured in a remark about Philip II of Spain: “No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence.”

From New York Times • Mar. 14, 2018

I detest that wooden-headedness which no amount of moving about the world will ever teach to think.

From The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan by Mitford, Bertram

We are displacing that peculiar virtue which used to be admired as hard-headedness, and which was really only wooden-headedness, with intelligence, and also we are getting rid of mushy sentimentalism.

From My Life and Work by Ford, Henry

For which wooden-headedness the Child shall be taken to task on Monday morning, when I am going to look at his preparations, by appointment, about the door.

From The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 by Hogarth, Georgina