It has to do with the pigheadedness of the Bush team and the softheadedness of many allies.

Templeton may appeal to New Age softheadedness, but he's much more rigorous than the crystal-and-shaman crowd.

Someday, I vowed, I'd make up for his softheadedness, and though I'm still trying, I enjoy the fight.

No softheadedness over him, and no softheadedness from him!

At the United Nations Association, an independent American support and research organization, Jeffrey Laurenti said the last week showed that "even the most conservative senators can visit the U.N. now without fear of being tainted with softheadedness."

Like Janet Malcolm's books on Sylvia Plath and Anton Chekhov, it is in large measure a sustained, strenuous critique of the lazy thinking, sloppy research and overall softheadedness that characterize so much popular biographical writing.