Do not forget that it was by your wrong-headedness and bungling that you brought about your own defeat.
They were busy trying to turn it into a diminutive imitation of Oxford, and did their best to make it, in its own small way, almost as much a perverse miracle of backward and invariable wrong-headedness as was its great model.
Cool-headedness is the evanescent examination of forces, either physical or intellectual, with reference to supposed danger.
The man gifted with cool-headedness is intent on never allowing them to be seen.
The most elementary common sense counsels then cool-headedness when exchanging ideas, even when the discussion is of quite an amicable nature.
Without self-control cool-headedness can not exist; but it only develops completely under the influence of common sense which dictates to it the reasons for its existence.
Owing to the wrong-headedness of Fox and the timidity of Portland, Pitt's triumph in the Commons was not decisive enough to tear the veil away from the eyes of the French Jacobins.
As to the Quiberon disaster, it has been proved to result from the hot-headedness of Puisaye, the criminal carelessness of Hervilly, and the ceaseless schisms of the Royalists.
Accepting Professor Ripley's own criterion of purity of race, I might point to the almost universal round-headedness of the Jew as a proof of their racial unity.
If one wished to be hypercritical, one could trace the long-headedness of a minority of Jews to this admixture of race from Spain.
More and more I became a focus of adverse criticism in all matters where level-headedness was deemed important.
Something Virginia suffered from Royal governors, something from the Indians, something too from the imprudence and wrong-headedness of her own people.
They made all sorts of silly remarks about "absentmindedness," only exposing their own empty-headedness thereby.
Aiming firearms in "fun" at people is not empty-headedness solely but a form of hysteria.
Perhaps the thought shot into his mind that had it not been for the pluck and clear-headedness of one of the Dreadnought Boys, he might not have been there.
By the way, Scott, those two young men, I perceive now, are the ones I spoke to you about as having behaved with such singular courage and cool-headedness when the Rhode Island burned.
According to the newspaper and drawing-room myth, soft-headedness and idiotic credulity are the bond of sympathy in this Society, and general wonder-sickness its dynamic principle.
Of Ha'o's loyalty and level-headedness he had no doubt.
It's amazing what an amount of pig-headedness there is in the world," said his friend.
However, not even the Crustumini and Antemnates bestirred themselves with sufficient activity to satisfy the hot-headedness and anger of the Caeninenses: accordingly the people of Caenina, unaided, themselves attacked the Roman territory.
When marked in this way it denotes balance of judgment, level-headedness in all things, and is a most excellent sign to have.
But my lunacy took the form of light-headedness with a strange, almost persistent, sense of exaltation.
We were impatient of soft-headedness in rich people who had nothing to do, and of heavy muddle-headedness in the millions who had too much to do, and of muckraking of every kind which only got in the way of the builders.
And it is clear-headedness and not inconsistency in a man that keeps him so.
Lack of courage is a lack of vision or clear-headedness about what one wants.
It was old Peter's big-headedness and pride, they said.
But on the way, with that mixture of restlessness and level-headedness that was so characteristic of her, she decided Carew's plan was much too prosaic and dull, and speedily commenced to think out a better one.
She at least had level-headedness enough for the two.
But she made these mistakes, which were mainly due to that swelled-headedness which deflected her reasoning and prevented her from calculating consequences aright.
Moreover, sensible as a large number of Germans were, there was a certain tendency to swelled-headedness in the nation.
His position requires more nerve and cool-headedness than any other position on the team because the final responsibility of all goals scored against his team is up to him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "headedness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
