hardheadedness

Some corporate leaders also seem to respect Mr. Musk’s hardheadedness.

In the courtroom, it was easy to think that city officials’ hardheadedness was all that stood between Banks and the solutions to his clients’ problems.

He did not say that he believed their resistance was, as he put it, “stubbornness, laziness and, as my great-grandmother would say, just plain hardheadedness.”

I don’t mean realism in the colloquial sense, meaning hardheadedness, or political realism, which assumes we’re all selfish jerks.

That youthful hardheadedness quickly faded.