Word: stubborn
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...magazine struck gold in finding Mollie, who, luckily for this rag, has always been content-focused, though her keen aesthetic sense and inimitable style may lead some to assume otherwise. As Moll grabs hold of the reins of FM—an often unwieldy beast, even for someone as stubborn as Mollie, who insists on wearing patent leather Marc Jacobs pumps in a Nor’easter—she will take the magazine into a more modern age complete with full color covers and a professional redesign of every page...
...smiles and shakes his head slightly. "No, I kept it up. I was quite stubborn...
Chomet (who did use computer animation for the film's cars, boats and trains) has a canny design eye to match his narrative wit. The old woman is stocky and clubfooted, a compact metaphor for stubborn dedication; her grandson is so spindly he could ride Giacometti's Chariot; Bruno the dog has more personality than 101 Dalmatians. The movie isn't aimed at kids, but they will find plenty to beguile them. And don't worry that the film is French; it has hardly any dialogue. Doesn't need it. The gnarly imagery and the movie's understanding...
...show up from time to time to hallowed Harvard Stadium, encouraging our team with raised voice, cautiously applying our facial paint, and putting that big H on our New England induced pale-white torsos. But we never wave our index fingers in the air. Because we know that eight stubborn administrators will never give us the chance to truly back...
...accept would be a theological knuckle rap and a probationary period during which ECUSA would be expected to repent by retracting Robinson's episcopacy. American liberals insist that the primates have never produced that specific a demand. And since their meetings customarily end with a statement made by consensus, stubborn opposition by a handful of liberals could force a milder conclusion. Others have suggested an option more in keeping with the Anglican penchant for "muddling through." Last Friday Cape Town Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane, the most liberal of Africa's primates, proposed that a commission be set up to study...