Sentences with word «obdurate»

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

On 11.14.17, Obdurate Space: Architecture of Donald Judd opened at the Center for Architecture.

At once obdurate in its material facture and nearly invisible in its blanket - like wall of atmosphere, this Light Slab seems a science - fiction postulation come to life, a portal to some other universe or state of being.

As the first pope after the end of Vatican II, Paul VI had a delicate task» that of faithfully implementing the Council in the face of resistance from obdurate conservatives and radical progressives.

Holocaust survivors are remarkable for the mere and obdurate fact of their survival.

But the kind of person I am thinking of becomes more obdurate under such kindly but loose treatment, and I have seen many ministers who have spent hours of guilty self - reflection over their «failure to reconcile» such persons.

But then the visible bodies (5) are imaginatively decomposed by science into smaller, invisible particles possessing the same obdurate features as the larger aggregates on which they are modeled.

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

Burnley 0 Arsenal 1 It was the third minute of stoppage time, and the cruellest of circumstances for this tough, obdurate Burnley side, when Arsenal» -LRB-...)

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is standing by his renewed advocacy for a law that would allow undocumented immigrants to tap into financial assistance for college despite obdurate opposition from state Senate Republicans.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is standing by his renewed advocacy for the DREAM Act, a law that would allow undocumented immigrants to tap into financial assistance for college, despite obdurate opposition from state Senate Republicans.

Timorousness in the face of obdurate teacher unions (Denver being a happy exception) is perhaps the greatest cause of our halting progress in this domain.

Von Heyl's best paintings are at once obdurate objects and elusive phantoms.

Through their formal and expressive thoroughness, these paintings, which present the viewer with obdurate abstraction, thingness and even hermeticism, draw us into their orbit not by what is splashed across the surface but by the physical manifestations of their creators» thoughts, emotions and sense perceptions.»

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.

For obdurate cases of IRC, there are continuing self - criticism sessions of escalating intensity.

It's a powerful way to empower educators, families, and communities, while allowing them to sidestep entrenched and frequently obdurate bureaucracies.

It is not smugness, therefore, but sheer rightness that this man should be cheered «not to have exposed my inhibitions but to have hit upon some marvelously practical and obdurate part of myself.»

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.

The Christian sees the Jew as the incomprehensibly obdurate man who declines to see what has happened, and the Jew sees the Christian as the incomprehensibly daring man who affirms redemption in an unredeemed world.

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

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

The book of Nature does not suffice to reveal the Creator aright to such unintelligent and obdurate pupils as ourselves.

But even so, there can be little doubt that Chelsea are the best team in the country: they have a terrifying defense, a midfield that is generally productive and always obdurate, a lethal - when - fit striker and, in Eden Hazard, the best player in the land.

At other times, it seems that Spurs are simply failing to make any headway against their (theoretically) obdurate foes.

So if Arsenal lose — and remember that West Brom are managed by Tony Pulis, who is magnificently obdurate, and just dissected Chelsea, who are a significantly better team than Arsenal — and United win, then there's just the small matter of a seven - goal swing in goal difference to be made up.

So, with alleged «Banking Zuwo» judges, can the NBA, or the CJN for that matter, beyond obdurate legalism, defend the conduct of judges allegedly warehousing huge cash at home, when they are not some illiterate Idumota traders mortally scared of the banking system?

Especially now, given de Blasio's obdurate hyperventilating on BumSweepGate?

Overall this book turned from an exciting window into the world of genetic engineering to one of bombastic predictions and obdurate hand - waving in the face of genuine concerns.

«He brings with it all of that kind of obdurate stubbornness of elderly people but also the fragility of age, so there's a different kind of truth to the performance, and it was very exhilarating to watch,» she said.

He delivers a portrait of obdurate strength and sensitivity, shading scenes with a flicker of an eyelid or an extra watt of brightness in the eye itself.

This seeker has two young sons: Gully, dying from a fatal (and pointedly unnamed) condition, is a sweet kid who adores his big brother; and budding falconer Ivan, resenting being dragged along on his mother's obdurate odyssey to find a faith healer.

With his monk - like taciturnity and obdurate gaze, Brady certainly embodies the «strong, silent type,» but when his injury worsens and hands frequently freeze up in a fist, Brady fights the urge to speak up.

In other cases, parents became passive and complacent in the face of obdurate school bureaucracies and persistent problems.

Since his debut in the groundbreaking Christine Falls, the eccentric (and often obdurate) medical examiner has proven to be more than a match for colleagues and criminals alike, not to mention family members and lovers.

Manister's artistic worldview and method is underpinned by the humanist vision of the older generation, but his commitment to forging an individual practice is not hampered by the same kind of high - seriousness and obdurate self - belief often found with other painters working «after the fall.»

That can feel obdurate, and even chilling, especially in the largest works.

Even dedicated fans of his work have inevitably faltered at one or another of his forking paths over the past twenty years, while Bradley, on the other hand, shifts gears without pause: from starkly minimalist to gestural abstract paintings with stops in between, from discomfiting assemblage sculptures to boldly graphic silkscreens, and from jagged, sometimes comic drawings to obdurate geometric sculptures.

An homage to Callas, Warhol's status as a devotee of the opera diva, and the avant - garde tradition of musique concrète, this abstraction of music turns the operatic melody into pure, hard sound, and emotion into something obdurate and concrete, before the song reemerges.

N. Dash's first solo museum exhibition was staged in the Hammer's distinctive Vault Gallery; with its diminutive, bullet - shaped floor plan and arched ceiling, the chamber is one of the museum's more unusual spaces, and the room's obdurate layout underscored the role of architecture within Dash's incisive painting practice.

While his use of simple, obdurate forms and new, industrial materials was decidedly modern, his settlement in the west Texas desert also summons the Arcadian impulses of nineteenth - century landscapists.

The artist Donald Judd, who died in 1994, remains known for many things — his sculpture, his spare architectural interventions, his exacting and obdurate personality.

Intentionally or not, Cordy Ryman's use of the biological term «adaptive radiation» suggests the rhythmic relationship between his radiating patterns of paint and materials and their underlying, obdurate physicality.