| 单词 | mulishness |
| 例句 | His persistence in the face of mulishness was astounding. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Yet Brian’s mulishness and recklessness sometimes hinted at a desperation in completing his mission. In Furious 7, The Magnificent Slam-urai Bid Farewell to Paul Walker 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z According to Ms. Rubin’s research, Questioners have other charming weaknesses in addition to a certain mulishness about deadlines. Whatever Happened to Just Being Type A? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z The Brexiteers, pursuing a fantasy of imperial-era strength and self-sufficiency, have repeatedly revealed their hubris, mulishness and ineptitude over the past two years. Opinion | The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z The hours ticked by and, eventually, sheer mulishness won out. Rwanda’s Khashoggi: who killed the exiled spy chief? 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z We then bemoan their mulishness and sly ways, as they avoid the stick and do backroom deals with the carrot-holder. Is a car maker about to save the planet? | Zoe Williams 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z A round-faced twenty-six-year-old, Whittaker had simple tastes — Boise State football, comic books — and a reputation for mulishness belied by his innocent appearance. Courage and malfeasance in Afghanistan: “Anyone we drop off will die” 2012-11-18T13:00:00Z Reviewing “Private Lives” in The Times of London, Benedict Nightingale said Ms. Cattrall “combines allure with the mulishness of a woman who knows her own mind as well as her own body.” ArtsBeat: Kim Cattrall Coming to Broadway in 'Private Lives' 2011-06-30T19:03:52Z Near the close of winter I had developed a hacking cough with occasional chest pains, but with masculine mulishness had refused to recognize any untoward symptoms. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z Perversion—obstinacy; willfulness; mulishness; stubbornness; unwillingness to change, even though reason requires. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology I don't care about myself, but I can't see a woman sacrificed—even if it's your own mulishness! The Huntress And as Edwin would be exasperated because Maggie’s attitude towards argument was that of a woman, so would Maggie resent a certain mulishness in him characteristic of the unfathomable stupid sex. Clayhanger She—Split—had no time to waste besieging the impregnable fortress of Sissy's mulishness, when the hardening process had really set in. The Madigans With his usual mulishness, Sarah thought he’d have a cut in, and it was resolved to give him a chance. Tom, Dick and Harry Rather indeed he would ask nothing of any one, but would cultivate independence, mulishness, and gaiety, and fix his thoughts on a bright if distant morrow. The Tragic Muse Her face was still comely, and there was the mild mulishness in her expression that is seen in the countenances of many amiable yet obstinate persons. The Miller Of Old Church When the tactlessness, bad temper, or general mulishness of man wrings unwilling tears from her eyes, there is no sympathy to be gained from that impalpable presence. The Spinster Book He put it down to his own mulishness that he had hung on and had learned through the little boy of her removal from the palace. The Palace of Darkened Windows “Owing to the asinine mulishness of S—H, and three between—” “No—that won’t do,” said I, fiercely. Tom, Dick and Harry People of plainer speech said it was "mulishness." A Spinner in the Sun "You'd see the whole—the whole scheme come to nothing, would you?"—he scolded at her—"rather than abate a jot of your confounded mulishness." The Market-Place And Lanyard shrugged appreciation of the futility of more contention against such mulishness. The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf You shall beg her pardon on your knees for your beastly interference, presumption, mulishness, and graceless manhood; and then you shall leave her immediately, and thank God for the breath of her forgiveness. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution “Owing to the asinine mulishness of Sarah—” Here an interruption occurred. Tom, Dick and Harry I have more than once seen a driver hitch a harnessed animal to the halter, and by that process haul his mulishness forward, while each of his four projected feet would leave a furrow behind. The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway A sort of passive mulishness it was, impervious to argument, immovable under the most sympathetic pressure, which particularly tried the Dabney patience. The Market-Place If this is a day of destiny, no stupid mulishness of mine shall thwart the happy combination of the stars. A Day of Fate If they failed in their duty through incapacity or mulishness, nothing was easier than to get rid of them; there were others to choose from—dozens of others, waiting for the job! South Wind Having found himself out, unless his mulishness is almost past sanity, he begins to reject his habit of resistance of his own accord. Nerves and Common Sense But, most unfortunately, it is in the very best things of life that the true mulishness of the obstinate man most comes out. Bunyan Characters (1st Series) It had been a pet mule in a family of children until Collins’s keen eyes rested on it; and it had known only love and kindness and much laughter for its foolish mulishness. Michael, Brother of Jerry |
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