On the other hand, the Morad caricature makes us look bellicose and pigheaded, if not downright absurd.
|
|
Ms. Miller said that being "stubborn" and "pigheaded" has helped her thrive in workplaces where foul language is standard.
|
|
And yes, he's part of a family of scientists, which will eventually become significant, given Krypton's leaders' reputation as a pigheaded lot.
|
|
This is something I try to explain to any well-meaning person who asks about my mysterious, pigheaded, yearslong case of insomnia.
|
|
Charlotte Moore's naturalistic production makes us care for everybody, no matter how vituperative, pigheaded or cartoonishly comical, and the cast is largely excellent.
|
|
To his detractors, he was pigheaded, so much so that he was suspended from practicing law for 30 days in 2008 for filing frivolous suits.
|
|
With a couple of exceptions, the men in the women's lives are pigheaded, arrogant, self-righteous and so smug in their power as to be repellent.
|
|
"I was doing psychedelic cartoons," he said in "Pigheaded," a documentary about Mr. Williamson by John Kinhart that has been shown at a few film festivals.
|
|
The real secret — well, not a secret at all — is the combination of Ms. Harmon (the pigheaded tomboy Rizzoli) and Ms. Alexander (the cerebral sorority girl Isles).
|
|
This thrilling ticktock brings the emotional core of geopolitical maneuvering into dramatic focus, with portraits of leaders variously honorable, pigheaded, irresolute, pusillanimous, and susceptible to mood swings.
|
|
Tucked away in a dimly lit gallery was the Circe vase, which showed Odysseus pursuing Circe with his sword drawn as his pigheaded men trail helplessly behind him.
|
|
But, when you add Jon's "half-sister"-slash-actual cousin Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) to the equation, he starts to seem a lot less swoon-worthy and a lot more pigheaded.
|
|
EDINBURGH (Reuters) - An Australian family battling deportation from Scotland has been granted the right to stay until August but denied a work visa, a decision their parliamentary representative described on Monday as "pigheaded".
|
|
"(The government) must urgently rethink this unfair and pigheaded decision," said Scottish National Party lawmaker Ian Blackford, adding that the couple, who have a 7-year-old son, would have difficulty making ends meet until then if not allowed to work.
|
|
Compassionate Americans concerned about the plight of wrongfully convicted citizens – folks who want our criminal justice system to operate fairly and accurately – should be outraged by the Department of Justice's pigheaded rejection of fundamental, far-reaching forensic science evidence reform.
|
|
"I'm sorry, I'm too pigheaded; they didn't convince me," said Susan Bosco, a 76-year-old from Democratic-leaning Northern Virginia, who said that in her daily life she rarely encountered people as conservative as those she had met here.
|
|
It is simultaneously an impressive level of resilience and quite remarkably pigheaded: to see the World Health Organization warning of the threat of global pandemic at the same time as fans and officials debate when, exactly, Inter will make up its fixture deficit.
|
|
While finding a way for this roster—which is mostly comprised of greatness, misfits, and hype—to have success on the court, Walton must also propitiate a locker room that's suddenly more experienced, abrasive, pigheaded, lackadaisical, and brilliant than anything he's seen as a head coach.
|
|
But now, more than halfway through Trump's first term, the historic significance of the case is clear: It was an early skirmish in the coming legal war over redistricting and the 43 census, one that is culminating today with the president's pigheaded determination to put a citizenship question on the next national survey.
|
|
In fact, to get a true measure of George's scumbaggery, it's worth noting that his own mother called him "the most pigheaded, stubborn boy who ever lived, who has round his brains such a thick crust that I defy any man or woman ever to discover what is in them," according to Eleanor Herman's 2005 history Sex With the Queen.
|
|
He is obstinate and pigheaded, often to Barbara's detriment or irritation. On the few occasions that he is pessimistic, Barbara becomes the optimist.
|
|
McDougall was a Canada First nationalist. He espoused deep anti-Catholic and anti-Aboriginal views. He has also been called "vain, erratic and irredeemably pigheaded".
|
|
Desgrange dismissed Pélissier as "a pigheaded, arrogant champion". Marcel Bidot, another rider and later manager of the French team in the Tour de France, called Desgrange "a driven man and a boss who tolerated no disagreement".
|
|
Pontiac Moon is a 1994 adventure film directed by Peter Medak, and produced by Robert Schaffel and Youssef Vahabzadeh. The film stars Ted Danson as Washington Bellamy, a "pigheaded" science teacher in a small town of California, as well as Mary Steenburgen as his wife Katherine. Danson was also one of three executive producers of the film, along with Jeffrey D. Brown (co- writer) and Robert Benedetti.
|
|
She would always say what was on her mind. When she ran for reeve in 1960 she called one of her opponents, Leslie Saunders, "bigoted, pigheaded and, in his attitude to women, a throwback to the stone age". During the East York mayoralty race in 1966 she called Beth Nealson a "wish-washy, prissy, sweetheart". Metro chairman Fred Gardiner once complained that she had "taken a yard" off his back.
|
|
Karl Jensen has been President of the company since 2001, and in 2005, he added the PorkChopped Pale Ale to the shortlist of current brews. The beers are primarily known for the high alcohol content, with the PorkBQ Porter at 9.8%, PigHeaded Double Bock at 11.2%, and Pale Ale at 10.6%. Karl is also the primary designer for the company's current slogan "Ever pork a great Dane?" referencing the brewery's Danish heritage.
|
|
Labillardière had an abrasive, critical personality: even his eulogist described him as "sharp and austere", and a man who tended to "hide everything that was good in his soul behind a caustic and bitter intellect."Duyker (2003) p. 3, quoting Jean-Pierre-Marie Flourens He was also extremely stubborn: Denis and Maisie Carr describe him as having "the stubborn, almost pigheaded, independent mentality of the peasants near Alençon."Carr & Carr (1981) p. 79.
|
|
Ernest Woolcott is an annoying, pigheaded, upper-class Midbourne citizen who is an expert on piers. He has a great knowledge about piers, and the history of Midbourne Pier, including how Eugenious Birch built it in 1860, and even the date when the middle part of the pier was demolished during the war. After Miss Baxter, he is the first to show an interest in volunteering for FOMPA. He doesn't have much of a sense of humour.
|
|
Jutoupi started his career as Zhu Yuexin. Known as the "Bob Dylan of Taiwan," Jutoupi traveled around Taiwan to take part in social and political movements while accompanying himself on guitar. In 1994, Jutoupi joined Rock Records, a Taiwanese record label founded in 1980 by Sam and Johnny Duan. At Rock Records, Jutoupi changed his image by producing punk/rock style, fused with a range of Taiwanese and Western styles and adopting the confrontational name Jutoupi, a name that means pigheaded.
|
|
The War Cabinet (11 October 1917) invited Wilson and French to submit formal written advice, a blatant undermining of Robertson's position. Dining with Wilson and French the night before, Lloyd George claimed that Robertson was "afraid of Haig, & that both of them are pigheaded, stupid & narrow visioned".Jeffery 2006, pp 201–5 Wilson and French urged no major war- winning offensive until 1919. Robertson thought the War Cabinet a "weak kneed craven hearted Cabinet ... Lloyd George hypnotises them and is allowed to run riot".
|
|
Deciding to make the show a period piece, the pair lastly decided to make one of the show's primary locations a neutral zone inspired by Rick Blaine's bar in Casablanca, where they inserted the character of Louie in place of Rick. The decision to add Shere Khan to the cast was not made until later in the show's development. Magon and Zaslove also took inspiration from Hayao Miyazaki's 1989 manga Hikōtei Jidai, about a pigheaded man who flies a seaplane and fights air pirates. Two years after TaleSpin premiered, Miyazaki released an anime adaptation called Porco Rosso, which Zaslove felt took cues from TaleSpin.
|
|
Since the highly successful re-release of the film in the 1980s, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp has been re-evaluated. The film is praised for its dazzling Technicolor cinematography (which, with later films such as The Red Shoes and Black Narcissus, would arguably become The Archers' greatest legacy), the performances by the lead actors as well as for transforming, in Roger Ebert's words; "a blustering, pigheaded caricature into one of the most loved of all movie characters". David Mamet has written: "My idea of perfection is Roger Livesey (my favorite actor) in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (my favorite film) about to fight Anton Walbrook (my other favorite actor)."David Mamet, Bambi vs.
|
|
They attended classical concerts, had to speak German at the table, and were taught French by a nanny during outings to nearby Central Park. Later in life he came to appreciate his early training in languages that were central to scientific discourse during the first half of the twentieth century. Heidelberger decided at age eight that he wanted to be a chemist, for reasons he could never quite articulate or recall, but which he later judged no more than a "pigheaded idea". He experimented at home by mixing medicines and the very basic ingredients included in children's chemistry sets of the time, until he began his formal training in botany, zoology, physics, and chemistry at the Ethical Culture School, a private high school on New York's Upper West Side founded by the Ethical Culture Society, a Humanist religious movement of which his parents were members.
|
|