Word: stubborn
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...criticisms of her daughter's college antics that fail to show her daughter that she does in fact care about her welfare. Her verbal shots are accompanied by jerky, robotic gestures that reveal an underlying tension but are somewhat artificial and unconvincing. Azalea is the flowering know-it-all. Stubborn and unreceptive to motherly advice, she snaps defensively in response to every comment. She is a liberated student who savors the right to drink a glass of wine at lunch, if only for the shock value it has in startling her mother. She has become a vegetarian who protests...
...that his words move people to action. That is not what the Republicans had this year in Bob Dole. But considering all he had against him, including himself, the percentage of the vote he won was a kind of triumph, even a kind of tribute to his gritty and stubborn endurance...
...three-term Doolittle, a solid conservative, is an active member of the Agriculture Committee and steadfast ally of the Farm Bureau. As a member of the Resources Committee, he is a stubborn opponent of federally funded environmental-protection bills...
...Harvard's defense, coming off a two-interception performance against Cornell, is up to the challenge. And despite the losses, the defense had been consistently stubborn in yielding points. The 20 points it allowed the Big Red last weekend was the most it had allowed all season...
...company does put workers inside what Olson bluntly calls the "Toyota vise." He describes his Japanese employer as "an immensely stubborn, universally tenacious company. There's this hatred of waste, and [you're] continually driving to get more for less. You're never happy. You're never allowed to be satisfied. Attacks and setbacks are only used as learning exercises...