Word: hardheadedness
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In fact, Gaines' enthusiastic explications of such Bach masterworks as the Offering, the St. Matthew Passion and the B Minor Mass are what counterbalance his portrait of the brilliant, troubled, contradictory Frederick, whose commanding presence might otherwise have taken over the book. Bach's hardheaded, self-sufficient genius, Gaines asserts...
(2 of 5) Complementing a raft of proposed amendments to the Family Law Act, the plan's centerpiece is a nationwide network of Family Relationship Centres (FRCs), where counselors will help separating parents work out a parenting plan before their anger and hurt - perhaps occasionally stoked by lawyers - can mutate...
Before us was a sea of stuff. And being at Nordstrom, it was a sea of upscale stuff. Stuff whose “stuff”-ness was strategically downplayed by the well-heeled salespeople who dressed it up and hung it from metal set in satin and wood. As...
Given the current strains on U.S. resources and manpower, Kerry's hardheaded realism seems sensible for the times. His advisers say he would insist on policies grounded in facts rather than ideological goals. In Kerry's view, Bush's belief in the inevitability of freedom's triumph has become a...
It is often remarked that Americans—hardheaded hegemons—never learn from their mistakes. Egregious lapses in foresight, ill-fated invasions and the illiberal use of diplomatic finesse are common fodder for this critique. But this coming November, voters can’t play the part of...