Sentences with phrase «most obdurate»

The construct of what makes us male and female is perhaps one of the most obdurate that we as a society face.

He is inclusive and hopeful to the extent that he extends a hand to the most obdurate and reactionary shelter director much as he would to a grumpy, badly behaved dog.

Chelsea are the cleverest, most pragmatic, most effective, most cynical and most obdurate team in the PL hands down.

Rocks represent matter at its most obdurate state, while ideas transcend matter altogether.

Physical reality, including the most obdurate objects, is composed of wave patterns, vibrations, energy events, electronic happenings.

The second of these is perhaps the most obdurate force we have to contend with, though the first is also a pervasive issue.

Fair enough: decades of Communist tyranny set atop centuries of other, far more invincible tyrannies have effectively shattered the Orthodox world into a contentious confederacy of national churches struggling to preserve their own regional identities against every «alien» influence, and under such conditions only the most obdurate stock survives.

Not exact matches

Liverpool deserve credit for this professional performance against an obdurate Bournemouth who, for the most part, defended well but, a late flurry apart, were negated going forward.

But if they recall photographs, it is most certainly analogue photographs — with the obdurate materiality of their surfaces, the grain, the distortion, the flaws.

Not only has controversy over Andre's work long since subsided — one critic has dubbed «Equivalent VIII» the most boring controversial artwork ever — the historical importance of his obdurate brand of sculpture is inarguable.

And, since worry by itself accomplishes exactly nothing, aren't the policy actions mostly the same — ie., mitigating all anthropogenic GHG emissions, beginning with the most amenable and working toward the more obdurate?

Judges are reluctant to punish and most especially incarcerate obdurate mothers who refuse to comply with a judge's decision that they must allow access with an estranged father.