| I'm driven more by cussedness and outrage at injustice than I am by any ideology. |
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| He's 72 now, and there's a certain cussedness to his bone-dry directorial style that suggests it's a job he should now do less. |
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| When the film was finally screened last week, it quickly became clear that his jumpy demands and general cussedness have paid off. |
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| It can be viewed as yet another manifestation of the awkwardness, or cussedness, of organisms. |
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| Such cussedness is rarely endearing to those whose job it is to make the government machine run smoothly. |
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| His years as a player have been characterised by the cussedness of never knowing when to yield. |
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| His plight is also about entrenched bureaucratic cussedness, bad laws and anti-citizen legal procedures and practices. |
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| Amidst this unnerving display of journalistic cussedness, some Gujarati newspapers tried hard to sustain professional standards. |
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| Artistically, though, he deserves a volume to himself, albeit one with tales of cussedness and strife strewn among the creative triumphs. |
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| As he grew older, this cussedness became more pronounced, until his hatred of benighted autocratic states led him in the eyes of many to betray his left-wing views altogether. |
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| All art is born out of a certain amount of struggle, determination and sometimes just cussedness. |
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| It's basically a bet on human cussedness, the belief that history shows that humans can turn any apparent eventuality on its head, if we work at it hard enough. |
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| Politicians and public servants often fail to understand that resentment to change, and opposition to new ideas, do not spring from cussedness but failure to understand the reasons. |
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| They learned the heart-breaking cussedness of camp-kitchens and camels and the depravity of an E. P. tent and a wither-wrung mule. |
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| This is proof, if any were needed, of the sheer cussedness of the Murdoch empire and hints at the savage competition in the British newspaper industry. |
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| Well, if ever a man was born bad in his temper, 'twas Captain Bligh.... They made an Admiral of him in the end, but they never cured his cussedness. |
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| He made camp there that night, pitching his little tent in the trail for pure cussedness, and defying aloud a traveling world to make him move until he got good and ready. |
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| Full of vinegar and all-round cussedness, but without malice. Just as soon kill you as not, but in a playful sort of way, you understand, without meaning to at all. |
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