What is needed now is to reshape relations with Europe on terms intelligently and hardheadedly devised in London.

She hardheadedly acknowledged, in Ms. Marsh's words, that "to reach print, female poets must behave in a 'feminine' manner."

Last year it might have hard-headedly encouraged a negotiated partition.

They could quite hard-headedly - and perhaps hardheartedly - hold to job-qualification requirements which do not make allowance for the disabled.

While this is common practice in a recording studio, it is not so common live, especially with hard-headedly independent jazz musicians.

The quest for Palestinian self-determination is often portrayed as an issue of national pride, of rewards that are more psychic and symbolic than hard-headedly practical.

"I'm just being hard-headedly realistic.

Though he still wore in his topknot the great black barbaric saw-toothed feather of his authority, the Miramon before Amalfi today bore little resemblance to the lithe, supple, hard-headedly practical semi-savage who had once squatted on the floor in Amalfi's presence, because chairs were the uncomfortable prerogatives of the gods.