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单词 pigheadedness
例句 pigheadedness
With what Harry considered pure pigheadedness, however, Ron was unimpressed. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z
The film focuses accurately on Nicholas and Alexandra's pigheadedness in the face of change. Nicholas and Alexandra: mashing up history can't make this pair lovable 2013-06-14T09:04:00Z
Truffaut returned that letter, along with one of his own — 20 handwritten pages condemning the selfishness and pigheadedness of his longtime friend. | 'Two in the Wave': Truffaut and Godard?s Roles in Creating the New Wave 2010-05-18T23:55:00Z
“They’re not afraid to show the fragility and the pigheadedness of men,” he says. Martin McDonagh loves his stars: 'I don't want anyone else to get their hands on them' 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z
Euro 2020 will still be an exercise in hubris and pigheadedness and get-there-itis; it will still be a monument to soccer’s unyielding self-satisfaction. Ravaged and Resilient, the Show Goes On 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z
Most forebodingly: In Buchanan's case, his pigheadedness during his lame duck period heralded the outbreak of the Civil War. The last time an outgoing president refused to work with an incoming one, we had a civil war 2020-11-29T05:00:00Z
Other Republican officials have been aiding and abetting Trump’s pigheadedness, too, in some cases hoping to turn it to their advantage. Trump’s tendency to double down on bad ideas doesn’t bode well for the economy - The Washington Post 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z
Yet, whether for political advantage or out of sheer pigheadedness or both, President Trump continues to deny and ignore reality. Opinion | Global warming is already here. Denying it is unforgivable. 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z
His biggest obstacle, of course, is institutional pigheadedness. ‘The Last Post’ Review: Expedition in the Bedroom 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z
But a little pigheadedness at the top might be just what Illinois needs right now. Recent editorials published in Iowa newspapers 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z
Forcefulness can become bullying; decisiveness can turn into pigheadedness; niceness can develop into indecision. Schumpeter: Too much of a good thing 2013-06-06T15:01:29Z
If I had refused to speak before from sheer pigheadedness, I was now resolved to play the part that I was cast for, putting my trust in Providence and fortified by resolution. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z
The movement's drawing power was limited from the start, and then, once the war was on in earnest, it felt -- realistically -- that it had run smack against the brick wall of George Bush's manic pigheadedness. Where have all the war protesters gone? 2011-07-17T17:01:00Z
Sports administrators opposed to machines will, like dinosaurs, die out, because their resistance will be seen as nothing more than nonsensical pigheadedness. Soccer has inevitable date with goal technology 2011-03-07T21:34:11Z
Call it my pigheadedness if you like; I can't very well object to anything you call me; but I won't come. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z
Their awesome pigheadedness demonstrates a remarkable effort to be consistent in the face of all evidence provided by actual reality. Bank reform: The debate is over 2010-07-15T15:34:00Z
Miner had plunged into it at once with pigheadedness and with passion; the full story of why Ambrose had failed to go south when his comrades did has not been told by Mrs. Barrows. The Loves of Ambrose
Then, in my pigheadedness, I declared we would stop in the village, and he gave proof of what he could do when things did not go exactly to his liking. Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington
You are simply killing your practice through your infernal pigheadedness. The Monster and Other Stories
Never having questioned Steve in such details Beatrice merely murmured inwardly that goat tending in one’s past strangely enough led to pigheadedness in later life. The Gorgeous Girl
Am�lie's arguments were piffle or worse to her, and her willingness to undergo "martyrdom" for them was the most arrant pigheadedness, as the martyrdom of alien creeds usually is. In a Little Town
"Well, for downright pigheadedness and idiotic pertinacity, commend me to a Scotchman every time," he cried delightedly. The End of the Rainbow
Unlike the well-bred Moor, the basha's face was deeply lined: cruelty, cunning, pigheadedness, all fought for the upper hand in his swarthy countenance. In the Tail of the Peacock
Bixler had none of the bluntness, the pigheadedness, the brutality of this—but then, there was no comparing the two. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.
The majority of Frenchmen have brought to the scrutiny of the matter a degree of pigheadedness that clearly proves the influence of our method of subjective education. Boer Politics
Now, there's as kind-hearted an old gentleman as ever lived,—and as good a one, too, if it was not for pigheadedness and tantrums. Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885
Oh, you've got some of the old man's pigheadedness, have you? The Colossus A Novel
Blunt and difficult to lead, not out of hardness of heart or obstinate pigheadedness, but as Burns has put it: "For the glorious priviledge Of being independant." A Cotswold Village
I should like to spend some time in these higher regions, but I know that this will turn out an abortive expedition, owing to the stupidity and pigheadedness of Chalmers. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains
You know, Underhill, confidence and pigheadedness are not even connected by marriage; much less are they blood relations. L.P.M. : the end of the Great War
Such was my pigheadedness, my boyish zeal, my belief in human nature or perverse sense of duty, that I actually broke my vow and returned to that ridiculous establishment. Alone
Every species is vague, every term goes cloudy at its edges, and so in my way of thinking, relentless logic is only another phrase for a stupidity,—for a sort of intellectual pigheadedness. A Modern Utopia
The idealist in politics expects to get no pleasure out of what his associates deem his pigheadedness; but he has seen a vision and he keeps true to it. Problems of Conduct
Monroe came to laugh at "old Monroe's" pigheadedness. Martie, the Unconquered
That I am poor," he went on presently, "is the result of my own pigheadedness. The Unclassed
Every species is vague, every term goes cloudy at its edges; and so in my way of thinking, relentless logic is only another name for a stupidity—for a sort of intellectual pigheadedness. First and Last Things
I have convicted you of error at least half a dozen times, and not to confess it is mere pigheadedness. When the World Shook; being an account of the great adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot
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