most hardheaded

Conspiracy theorists normally try to find better evidence, but his accusers, he writes, were “the most hardheaded and least sophisticated people I had ever encountered,” with the intellectual and emotional maturity of second graders.

On Saturday night, with many of the same guests plus the gospel-tinged BGV Music Choral Group, Mr. Cale offered an uncompromising survey of his post-Velvets career: his most hardheaded songs, not his most ingratiating ones.

This is where the most hardheaded evictees hold their ground.

Most hardheaded analysis — including from those sympathetic ideologically — suggests this is wrong.

It’s a proposal that could satisfy the fringiest, angriest, most fervent Trumpkins, as well as the most hardheaded, technocratic policy wonks.