1. He had a reputation for being bloody-minded and difficult.

2. Don't be so bloody-minded!

3. Stop being so bloody-minded!

4. Everybody else accepts the decision. Why must you be so bloody-minded?

5. He's just being bloody-minded.

6. For not having the obsessive singlemindedness - the bloody-minded selfishness - which permits a few male artists to be geniuses.

7. Combat Bonus A charging war boar is a bad-tempered mound of bloody-minded muscle and bone with pointy tusks and sharp teeth.