bullheaded

Example Sentences

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“This notion of bullheaded romantic persistence is a recurring cultural touchstone—countless movies, music and books celebrate the heroics of steadfast pursuit with admiration,” Valsthein says.

From Scientific American

For the duo, who are admittedly bullheaded about their vision, the future will look a lot like the present.

From New York Times

Their stumbling but bullheaded progress — they’re like low-rent cousins of Edward G. Robinson in “Double Indemnity” — is one of the show’s clever comic storytelling devices.

From New York Times

Feisty and bullheaded, his office walls covered with animal trophies and a 10-foot grizzly pelt, Young was a former riverboat captain willing to do anything to send money home to Alaska.

From Washington Post

“If it didn’t work, then we would make some other plan — but it had to work. That was just bullheaded of me.”

From Washington Post