Search Details

Word: stubborn (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...least 20 states, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. There were 4,500 housing-discrimination complaints last year in the U.S., up from 3,000 in 1980. Racism is most likely to erupt when white homeowners feel threatened. Neighborhood segregation in northern cities is the most stubborn remnant of racial division in America. Often the bias is subtle. But on the front line are families such as the Sleds and the Scotts, whose experiences are shard-sharp examples of how overt and brutal racism in the U.S. can still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Racism in The Raw In Suburban Chicago | 10/17/1988 | See Source »

...unexpected show of support for the Rev. Jesse Jackson during the primary campaign, however, demonstrates that the electorate is not as stubborn and intransigent as political pundits believe. Jackson's campaign is evidence that liberal values can be articulated successfully to the American public...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: The Dreaded L-Word | 10/5/1988 | See Source »

Best flubbed line award goes to President Reagan, who told the convention in his speech that "facts are stupid things." The presidential script called for the president to call facts "stubborn things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ollie in; Facts out | 8/15/1988 | See Source »

...performance is matched by that of Jodhi May, who plays the oldest child, Molly. May's Molly is a pouty, stubborn child who feels her mother's attachment to the anti-apartheid movement deprives her of her mother's attention. May cries and stomps and yells at police in a way that suggests a true mother-daughter likeness between her and Hershey...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Growing Up in South Africa | 7/29/1988 | See Source »

...Sophocles' Antigone, the tyrant Creon remarks at one point that "these rigid spirits are the first to fall." Referring to the stubborn will of his neice, who insists on burying her brother despite Creon's prohibition against doing so, the prophecy warns that if Antigone cannot become flexible in her religious philosophy, she will meet a bitter...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Ignoring Possible Change | 7/15/1988 | See Source »

Previous | 142 | 143 | 144 | 145 | 146 | 147 | 148 | 149 | 150 | 151 | 152 | 153 | 154 | 155 | 156 | 157 | 158 | 159 | 160 | 161 | 162 | Next