Word: mulishly
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...movie really runs on Dennis Quaid's misanthropic conviction. He's one of those second-tier stars who has generally not been treated well by Hollywood. But whether he's called upon to play mulish, churlish or just to do some hard-charging action, we always sense an underlying decency in him - he has a good soldier quality that can be very appealing. In a way, his work is emblematic of the movie as a whole. There's nothing world shattering about Smart People. No one is ever going to call it a "must see" movie...
What a sorry spectacle. Bill Clinton and Boutros Boutros-Ghali poking each other like palookas too mulish to know better. The President of the U.S. and the Secretary-General of the U.N. have gone chest to chest over who should run the international peace organization when Boutros-Ghali's term expires Dec. 31. "You're out," says Clinton. "I won't go," answers Boutros-Ghali. "We veto you," responds Clinton. "I'm still the only candidate," retorts Boutros-Ghali. The African bloc can keep submitting the 74-year-old diplomat's name to the Security Council for a second five...
...astuteness, however. She is an intellectual, yes, and a realist. But as an old colleague notes, she has a mulish streak. "She can idealize the causes she's involved in just because they are hers," he observes. "All her geese are swans." Digging in too hard, even falling prey to fixations, has cost her some court decisions in the past. "A stubborn girl is our Mary," laughs Rogers...
...linked investments set up an alternative endowment that would be held in escrow. Harvard would get the money if it divested or if apartheid ended in South Africa. Those active in this Endowment for Divestiture (E4D) argue that donations to the College implicitly endorse the University's immoral and mulish decision not to divest from organizations that do business in South Africa...
...sense, the political rumblings represent a mulish refusal to accept the changes in Western Europe's social fabric. Serious debate has been hindered by rhetoric about immigration, which is all but over, and large-scale repatriation, which is all but impossible. "We haven't come to terms with the fact that black people are really here to stay," says Lawyer Paul Boateng, 32, who was an unsuccessful Labor candidate in Britain's last general election. "We regard black people as immigrants who are transients, or potentially transients. White society wants to believe...