| 单词 | pigheaded |
| 例句 | Then he declared, “Plus, I couldn’t live under his roof. He’s the most pigheaded man on the planet.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Pullman’s friends cautioned that he was being pigheaded and had underestimated the anger of his workers. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z All I could see was that we’d risked our lives because he was so pigheaded. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “What those other people can and cannot do and frankly,” she hiss, “I think it’s downright pigheaded of you. To think you know better than our government? Than Ross Barnett?” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “And don’t give me any pigheaded reasons why you can’t take it. Pride’s always been the great sin of our family.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “At times, young man, you tread a precariously thin line between being charmingly headstrong and insufferably pigheaded.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Cargill consistently exhibited a pigheaded refusal to acknowledge that people might actually care about these issues for reasons that are non-performative. White isn’t a neutral color: “Doctor Strange,” Tilda Swinton and the “unwinnable” diversity argument 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z So when he’s arrested by corrupt police on a trumped-up drug charge and thrown into prison, of course he’s too pigheaded to call his parents and obtain the bribes necessary for his release. Movie Review: ‘186 Dollars to Freedom,’ Directed by Camilo Vila 2012-09-21T17:18:11Z Why are they so blind, pigheaded and impervious? Books of The Times: Marilyn, Dostoyevsky and Me, Her Pup 2010-12-06T20:40:00Z I'm OK with Art being somewhat skeptical of Raylan, given that he knows more about Raylan's dirty dealings, but this feels like Vasquez is being pigheaded because the plot told him to be. 'Justified' 'Fugitive Number One' recap: blood and betrayal 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z Frederick William I was a monster: a pigheaded bigot who forced his son to spend his childhood on the parade ground and regarded his interest in books and music as a sign of effeminacy. Prussian and powerful 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z With admirable wit and panache, Smith goes on to address the “chauvinistic, pigheaded blokes who feel emasculated by the fact that we, three small, fairly feminine girls, are stronger than them.” Zoe Smith takes on everyone 2012-08-01T15:40:00Z The writers — both men — are pigheaded and tactless; their conversations with Penny are very funny. These Are Not Your G-Rated Fairy Tales 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z With a couple of exceptions, the men in the women’s lives are pigheaded, arrogant, self-righteous and so smug in their power as to be repellent. Review: In ‘Parched,’ Women in an Indian Village Chafe Against Oppression 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z This is something I try to explain to any well-meaning person who asks about my mysterious, pigheaded, yearslong case of insomnia. ‘Wild Nights’ Offers a History of Sleep (and Sleeplessness) 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Don't be pigheaded, animal insults are just catty. PETA mocked on social media for claiming insults like 'pig,' 'chicken' hurt animals 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z Ms. Miller said that being “stubborn” and “pigheaded” has helped her thrive in workplaces where foul language is standard. Backstage and Now the Boss: ‘The Only Girl in the Building’ 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z But as the story progresses the tune’s insistent levity is contradicted by the awful behavior of some pigheaded characters. Movie Review: ‘Love Is All You Need,’ Starring Pierce Brosnan 2013-05-02T23:44:26Z “It’s one of those things, there were a few numbers in that group where I was pigheadedly trying to go beyond what was possible for me. But isn’t that life?” Iggy Pop and Jim Jarmusch: 'The world urinated on the Stooges' 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z Ransom is a movie about a pigheaded man who does something he will never be forgiven for, even if things ultimately turn out for the best. Mel Gibson: the year of living disastrously 2010-12-16T22:39:01Z And perhaps most cruelly, this pigheaded hubris hurts the most vulnerable the most. Republican Presidential Candidates Vow to Fiddle as the Earth Burns 2023-09-01T04:00:00Z The team’s thick, almost spreadable toum cranks up the volume on the stinking rose, allowing its pungency and pigheaded perfume to accessorize a number of dishes. Review | Yasmine is a kebab house inside Union Market, and so much more 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z Like I stumbled into the career that I have simply for being too pigheaded to accept “no” for an answer. Everything Everywhere All At Once is an immigrant horror story about tax season 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Everything now depends on two people, both who seem unbelievably pigheaded and egotistical, to grow up and start acting like they care about the people who got them elected. Dealing with Manchin and Sinema: Democrats finally ditch the carrot and pick up the stick 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z Giving up might not be the Patriot Way, but neither is pigheaded determination when sagacious rebuilding would be more shrewd. What Went Wrong for the Patriots? Everything 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z He seems to have no idea of how thoroughly pigheaded he’s being, even when he starts manipulating Esther into dalliances with other men so he can spy her. Review: Carlos Reygadas’ ‘Our Time’ opens up a marriage and finds more beauty than insight 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z But it is also a counterpoint to City’s more chancy, feather-footed movements, football that seems almost pigheadedly light and airy, a style that is relentlessly luminous on a point of dogged principle. We’ve finally got one – welcome to a real-life Premier League title race | Barney Ronay 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z Which is why there’s something almost heroic about DeSean Jackson’s pigheaded refusal to learn from his mistakes. Buckner and Burns blunder their way into inglorious sporting immortality | Andy Bull 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z But the heat is no easier to quell than the conflicts stoked by a racist police force and a pigheaded Italian-American restaurateur. From Do the Right Thing to Swimming Pool: culture's hottest heatwaves 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z But the goal--shedding light in a pigheadedly focused way--remains the same. The Five Most Handsome Task Lamps Out There 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z Sadly, the tragedy remains that many animals are going extinct because of pigheaded humans who are both ignorant and stupid - when the last animal is no more what then for this trade? How Not to Talk to an Ape Smuggler 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z That is, unless the Republican Party stops that pigheaded selfishness. Obamacare Hits a Pothole 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z “I was pigheaded in my behavior,” he said. The Cinematic Traumas of Kenneth Lonergan 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z Opposition to throwing money down a rathole is not pigheaded. The Clinton Plan’s Growth Deficit 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z To his detractors, he was pigheaded, so much so that he was suspended from practicing law for 30 days in 2008 for filing frivolous suits. John Jay Hooker Jr., Political Gadfly and Perennial Litigant, Dies at 85 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Instead of trying to push these changes, the GOP finds itself making pigheaded arguments based on technicalities. It's Time For The GOP To Embrace The Obamacare Exchanges 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z When we were young and pigheaded we would fight and I would say, “I want to divorce,” but I was immature in thinking that everything was supposed to be smooth all of the time. Making It Last: After 45 Years, They’ve Proved the Doubters Wrong 2013-08-16T12:00:01Z Estate agent, banker, farmer, solicitor, teacher, doctor… it's hilarious to imagine any of these workers at the wheel of such a snorting slab of pigheaded burliness. Chevrolet Camaro: car review 2013-03-10T10:30:01Z But supposing that weeping Niobe proved obdurate--weak people are pigheaded--and was inconvenient enough to be inconsolable? The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Then he realised the questions were not going to end there and it was here the paranoia, the blind bias and pigheaded denials all merged into one. Liverpool's Kenny Dalglish plays dumb to leave his dignity in tatters 2012-02-11T18:30:30Z Philippa, on the car, strove as best she might with the unappeasable curiosity of her sons and with the pigheaded anxiety of the Quaker to get home to his dinner. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z Le Mert took this outwardly with great composure, but inwardly he cursed the other’s pigheaded suspicion. Luck at the Diamond Fields 2011-10-06T02:00:43.067Z But I was pigheaded and determined "to have one more flip in the old 'bus." Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z No; but I might have done, had Madame de la Barre not been so confoundedly pigheaded. The Dispatch-Riders The Adventures of Two British Motor-cyclists in the Great War 2011-06-24T02:00:22.377Z He was irksome to deal with, and abominably pigheaded, also he swindled us, but I don’t think he disliked us personally. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z She really was like one of those contestants, as cocksure and as pigheaded as the best of them. Karren Brady interview: Having it all. Having a ball 2011-04-09T23:05:07Z But for his pigheaded tribalism, Rachel would have been alive to-day. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z She was quite sure that Tappitt was wrong, and thought of him at once as an obstinate, foolish, pigheaded old man. Rachel Ray "Viola is so pigheaded, if once she says a thing, she'll stick to it." The Jolliest Term on Record A Story of School Life Everybody was on his side except Ayala herself, and that pigheaded Colonel. Ayala's Angel A more obstinate, pigheaded boy than my son George never lived. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) To which Mr. Ricochet laughingly replied, that he believed the plaintiff was a very pigheaded man. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit Edwards had laughed at my faith in the man who was my friend, but I felt within me a strong conviction that he was not so black as pigheaded officialdom had painted him. The Sign of Silence The man was pigheaded, foolish, and obstinately proud. Is He Popenjoy? He could be pigheaded at times, but his sense of justice was as keen as a whip. The Man the Martians Made Of all pigheaded, impertinent people, this individual with whom she had hardly had more than five minutes' conversation, except at meal times during the past six weeks, was certainly the worst. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Are 262 you going to unload a lot more on her just because you want to be pigheaded. Crooked Trails and Straight No idea that he had ever been pigheaded and wrong had ever been driven into his dull brain. True to His Home A Tale of the Boyhood of Franklin It is simply an instance of that pigheaded English blindness which makes us think that everything outside our own country is or ought to be given up to the devil. Is He Popenjoy? Though Sir Bevil had elicited nothing but abuse of ‘pigheaded folly,’ his espousal of the young clergyman’s cause was not without effect. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster "They are mostly Presbyterians, dour, pigheaded, fanatical Republicans, who want to get an army of your French friends over to help them." The Northern Iron "Ah! you are wilfully obtuse, you are wilfully, cruelly pigheaded!" she cried. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance I am quite of your mind, Frau Bauer; though every Russian and most Frenchmen are a good riddance, I do not rejoice to think of any Englishman, however lazy, tiresome, and pigheaded, being killed.” Good Old Anna You're going to ruin three lives because you're so pigheaded or because you want your name in the papers as a great detective. Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story Men and nations are wasteful, cruel, pigheaded fools to indulge in it. The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II Many a time he had berated his friend for what he termed his pigheaded obstinacy. Bought and Paid For From the Play of George Broadhurst She had thought him to be a pigheaded Clavering, like the rest of them. The Claverings It was better, far better to be pig-tailed as were their great grandfathers, than to be pigheaded as were so many people with pig-culiar notions, specially in Scotland. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 13, 1892 His companion pigheadedly derided the fact because his own ears were not sufficiently keen to have detected the sound himself. The Story of the Foss River Ranch A Tale of the Northwest Men who are steadfast without their intellect guiding and settling the steadfastness are not steadfast, but obstinate and pigheaded. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V) Never was any one so pigheaded and stupid.’ More Bywords His brother was stupid, pigheaded, obstinate, and quite unfitted by nature for affairs of intrigue. The Claverings But his retainer took it all in the day's work, and never bore malice, continuing in his own cadging pigheaded sort of way to labour early and late to prop up his master's broken fortunes. Colonel Quaritch, V.C. A Tale of Country Life "The lines composed by cousin Pao ch'in are indeed devised in a too pigheaded and fast-and-loose sort of way," she observed. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books However, you were ever pigheaded, and now it serves you right. In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc He is one of the most obstinate and pigheaded of all the generals. With Moore at Corunna Thus he consoled himself when his pigheaded brother expressed his disbelief in the Russian spy. The Claverings Besides, sir, they are not like us Cornish; they are a stupid pigheaded generation at the best, these south countrymen. Yeast: a Problem They did not mention the pigheaded man to Grandma Padgett, though both longed to know if such a specimen of natural history had ever come under her eyes. Old Caravan Days It is easy to say we should not be obstinate, pigheaded, and argue for argument’s sake. Catharine Furze How could she make him understand whence had arisen her stepmother's anger and that she herself had been neither sly nor deceitful nor pigheaded? The American Senator He was not pigheaded; he was a promising young man; she could have liked him and perhaps aided him—only that he had shown so strong a determination to have nothing to do with her. The Claverings I do not as yet hold pigheadedly to it. At the Villa Rose I was pigheaded about him, because he seemed to care so much about me. The Judgment House There's no use in saying No in that frozen pigheaded way. How He Lied to Her Husband Yes, sir: she's pigheaded and obstinate: there's no doubt about it. O'Flaherty V.C. : a recruiting pamphlet Nothing will ever persuade me that you are as pigheaded as that. Captain Brassbound's Conversion Pious, persistent pigheaded folk were they, down all the line. The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) The public were gathered, impatient and scornful as the pigheaded public are apt to be. Condensed Novels He may be an upright, clear-headed, indefatigable man, in the prime of life, or he may be old, crotchety, pigheaded, and mentally and physically incapable. Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon "How stubborn and pigheaded you are," say those inaccessible to reason. The Foundations of Personality With a sinking heart concealed beneath an aggressively disagreeable manner, I remained firm in my "pigheaded conceit," as it was regarded, Hodgson generously supporting me against his own judgment. Paul Kelver, a Novel She had those pigheaded fits, and she was touchy about the bishops. Soul of a Bishop "But do you remember the trouble we had when the little old Queen was so pigheaded?" Soul of a Bishop |
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