as in bloody-mindedness
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- bloody-mindedness
- rigidity
- intractability
- insubordination
- rebelliousness
- recalcitrance
- disobedience
- unruliness
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And that bloody-mindedness seems to be a bargaining strategy.
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Stamp was a true original, a shapeshifter, a tough guy, and a charmer; one of the rare working-class British actors left who survived a childhood during the blitz and channeled bloody-mindedness, raw talent, and strong instincts.
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There may not be quite as many small-time sailors in the harbor this time, owing to the rigidity that has become inevitable since the 9/11 attacks, but plenty of weekend captains will make their way here.
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Ekman’s seven-point system, however useful as a package, leans toward rigidity, turning the face once again into a surface to be decoded.
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Their stories live on in Sardinian lore with an almost mythical quality, the brigands admired for their intractability.
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But Bass and every council member and all their successors need to be reminded that a civic sense of intractability is a dangerous thing.
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Williamson later ran afoul of the SSPX, which expelled him in 2012 for insubordination.
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Lugo also had filed insubordination charges against him.
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Marji’s rebelliousness, both admirable and terrifying for those who love her, is her salient characteristic.
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The pseudo-goth hair and costume choices speak to an inner rebelliousness that isn’t so much unleashed as forced loose by a system that values the appearance of a mythical impartiality over her humanity, leaving her with little recourse but to step outside the confines of the law.
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Yet his recalcitrance also runs the risk of costly retribution.
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As Holland recently alluded to in an interview with the Kings’ Zach Dooley and Jared Shafran, that recalcitrance could complicate the Kings’ timeline.
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But many Catholics, including conservative and traditional ones, are opposed to the consecrations, viewing them as an act of severe disobedience to the pope that hurts the church.
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But many Catholics not in Econe, including conservative and traditional ones, opposed the consecrations as an act of severe disobedience that hurts the church.
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In 2024, Buffett offered prescient reflections on the unruliness of the market, long before the prediction markets began to sway Wall Street.
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Their sprawl and unruliness, their capacity to be anything.
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