Hard-headed

Why are you so hard-headed?

Mary recited her poem so movingly, so forcefully, that she brought the audience to tears. Even hard-headed Jane searched for her handkerchief.

You're hard-headed!

I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.

He's such a hard-headed kind of person.

This increase has not been caused by empire-building on the part of transport managers, who have to convince such hard-headed men as accountants and boards of directors of their arguments.

Having found a property that 'feels' right you then have to adopt a hard-headed attitude and consider the realities of life in a new environment.