Challenger, lost in his daring dreams and ingenious experiments, had long needed an active, clear-headed man to manage his business interests, and to control his world-wide patents.

By 1893, he had reduced the diocesan debt by half, with his peers describing him as a "practical, clear-headed man of business" due to his administrative ability.

Van Rensselaer was apparently known as an unusually clear-headed man and an able and practical merchant who did not limit himself to his own branch of trade.

He had great conceptual capacity - a clear-headed man with a long horizon.

He is a clear-headed man of ideas, but not of compassion.

Owen was an intelligent, clear-headed man, who took pleasure in measuring things and pacing out distances and who, though nearly sixty, still had quite a good memory.

She'd heard him spin sugar webs of reason and logic around some of the shrewdest and most clear-headed men in Europe and get his way every time.

Johnson was a clear-headed humorous man, and therefore he did not mind talking seriously about religion.

He seemed to me a very cool, clear-headed man.

His record was that of an able, clear-headed man, too just to be either guilty of or tolerant of injustice.