But stubbornness can turn into pigheadedness if it is not tempered by realism.
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Pink Floyd may be no more, but Roger Waters is still here through sheer pigheadedness.
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But exploring the varieties of pigheadedness of the religious maniac was very enjoyable, if that makes sense.
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An inability, an unwillingness to be "spun" can suggest singularity, honesty, obstinance, cunning, even cluelessness or pigheadedness – it can be meaningfully ambiguous.
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The only reason the strike should last even that long is if any of the negotiators rediscover their predecessors' penchant for pigheadedness.
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His pigheadedness meant that he could not stop the drama in Catalonia from turning into a crisis, culminating in a unilateral declaration of independence last October.
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Of course, nothing else in the history of this country can compare to the horrors of slavery, but we are witnessing the same type of pigheadedness that plagued us then.
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Being both determined and right is a wonderful thing in a politician but a dangerous one in a constitutional monarch—particularly when determination shades into pigheadedness and rightness comes with a hefty dose of foolishness.
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And not because of some peculiar pigheadedness, or blindness to economic cost on their part, but because of the UK. Given that Britain has ruled out membership in a single market and the customs union, Canada is literally all that is left.
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In 1972, the year of Shirley Chisholm's presidential campaign, the writer Sandra Hochman and an all-female film crew crisscrossed the Democratic National Convention asking attendees for their thoughts on feminism and consequently exposing the hypocrisy and pigheadedness of male politicians and correspondents.
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And he worries about what this is going to mean in terms of accepting our own flaws and, even more importantly, the flaws in other people if we become malleable enough that people will be seen as having flaws either through pigheadedness or by choice, rather than having been born as they are.
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I'm not a happy camper at the moment." When asked why he continues to attempt making the film, Gilliam said, "Oh, I don't know, pigheadedness, stupid – I really don't know anymore. I'm beginning to actually think, 'If it doesn't work this time, I'm gonna dump it.' I've wasted far too much of my life doing it.
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