mulishness

It was my own mulishness, you see.

"I now believe he was completely right," Kushner says, living up to his reputation for mulishness.

It was, as Scanner had muttered at me a day ago, "plain cussed mulishness."

He did not like this mulishness, this almost ostentatious look of obduracy.

I pondered it, but Chade took my silence for mulishness.

He scowled at the wall screen, which with its usual mulishness was refusing to do what he wanted.

Her face was strained, and his wore the sullen mulishness of a man confronted with officialdom.

But even his gallantry is suffused with mulishness.

Negatively, he seems to have had a hot temper, a lack of diplomatic sense, and an obstinacy that bordered on mulishness.

But, most unfortunately, it is in the very best things of life that the true mulishness of the obstinate man most comes out.

It was very easy to see who the boy's parents were; the sweetness of the mother's temper was mingled with the mulishness of the father's.

Ada in "The Piano" isn't mad either, but her mulishness approaches sublimity.

It was just mulishness."

This evidence of mulishness seems to have thrown a scare into the Verne family, and in years to come they would treat Jules with caution.

There was Tamsy's occasional mulishness and Maurice's diffidence.

Mallory intended to give him the will-you-loosen-up speech, but paused to wonder at the extra dose of mulishness coming from him this morning.

His men were aghast at his neglect of the impossible; they were encouraged by his indomitable mulishness.

"Mulishness I can't.

Their eye contact remained unbroken, as Ivar's expression went from mulishness to tightly controlled outrage, and finally to grudging respect.

This mulishness is often accompanied by stupidity - "But I WANT to play on the M6!"

But I was not to be put off, which is something I never completely understand about myself: the streak of mulishness that asserts itself at inopportune moments.

Tebbit privately said of John Major on 17 November 1994: "He has the mulishness of a weak man with stupidity".

In Miami, as in Washington, Reno was criticized for her management style, for her sentimental notions about crime, and for her general mulishness.

It is all very ill-advised: Althea is strong-willed to the point of mulishness, they have this disowned Trader's son at the helm and some foreigner providing money.

The French world of Blois, in a fit of Gallic mulishness, had at first refused to take up the slack by revising production schedules in its own factories.