I had one middle-aged student who stubbornly refused to castle, saying that his King would be trapped in the corner and checkmated. |
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Looking as if she was about to explode, teardrops clung stubbornly to her eyelashes throughout, giving her a somewhat manic, glazed look. |
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Obvious malodour is not perceived by others although the patient stubbornly complains of its existence. |
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The bare figures, however, conceal the fact that domestic inflation is still stubbornly high. |
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A guerrilla soldier clung stubbornly to our clothesline pole, his foot trapped in the maw of my father's security dog, a Ridgeback. |
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I was the one still clinging, stubbornly and defiantly, to an expectation of miracles. |
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Charles stubbornly resists any metanarrative based on a wishful need to infuse a random and absurd universe with meaning. |
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I prefer to think that stiff-neckedness is a metaphor for being stubbornly set in one's ways. |
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Chilton had held third for much of the race, stubbornly refusing to allow a train of cars past him with some excellent defensive driving. |
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God loves us deeply, intensely, and he cares about even the most incredibly lost and stubbornly unrepentant sheep. |
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The stubbornly nomadic ones among them went back to their former, Mongolian lifestyle, where they could continue to roam at will. |
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My brain remained stubbornly blank and I was forced to stalk back into the house without getting in a final shot. |
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She agreed, stubbornly, and I started in on what Folttel had told me, and watched as Jana's eyes went slowly and slowly wider. |
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They've done nothing to harm us yet, but they've been stubbornly unforthcoming as to what this is all about. |
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It means spending hours untangling Christmas lights and searching for the one loose bulb keeping them stubbornly dim. |
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As usual the sun brightened every corner of the room, and I still stubbornly refused to open my eyes. |
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The front door would not shut properly, remaining stubbornly open to the world's vagaries. |
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The event itself is clearly global in its intent but it stubbornly remains the cultural property of the French. |
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He stubbornly goes forth armed with only his ideals as his men are violently cut down by enemy fire. |
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As the old man listened to what the interpreter said, he half-closed his eyes and looked upwards, quite stubbornly and obstinately. |
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I have been temping on and off but my overdraft stubbornly refuses to get smaller. |
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These individuals take the Scripture seriously and stubbornly advocate freedom of belief for all. |
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He remained stubbornly opposed to what ethnographic evidence revealed about Native people. |
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The suspect was beautiful, dangerous, and, following her capture, stubbornly unrepentant. |
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The stones at Carnac weave strange spells on this wave-tossed promontory that juts so stubbornly into the Atlantic. |
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As a result of this hormonal inhibition, your body stores fat and holds on to it stubbornly. |
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Run as a co-operative venture, this ski resort has stubbornly, and rather refreshingly, anchored itself in the past. |
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Kylie stubbornly folded her arms in front of her chest and leaned her head back against the seat of the car. |
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He still clings stubbornly to his belief in the omnipotence of science and the grandeur of human ambition. |
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Australian record companies appear to cling stubbornly to traditional business models. |
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Despite the warmth threatening to color my cheeks I crossed my arms and stubbornly turned away. |
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Despite a pickup in the retail and real-estate sectors, confidence in the economy remains stubbornly elusive. |
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Dezra ordered stubbornly, pinching her lips at him and glowering from beneath the big hat. |
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Rance took out a cardboard flashcard and shoved it stubbornly at the two month old Alex's face. |
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The paperback stubbornly fought to stay closed because it was new and the binding had yet to be creased. |
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My thoughts, however, stubbornly refused to cling to the issue and when a hoarse croak broke loose from high above me, I started violently. |
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You and I, living in a swiftly changing technological age, stubbornly cling to what is now considered antiquated gadgetry. |
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Tsai's mood is absolutely unique because it can be deeply sad and deadpan funny, highly metaphorical and stubbornly concrete at the same time. |
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Or you could dig in your heels and stubbornly fight against life, trying to defeat it, like the fallen tree. |
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Most of them plodded grimly along, stubbornly reminding themselves that the things they were doing were necessary. |
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The American people have stubbornly refused to fall in with the idea that religion is a disreputable anachronism. |
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Katrina stubbornly refused to veer off and wimp out like all New Orleanians distractedly assumed she would. |
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Like a quilt made from drastically different scraps of fabric, the puzzle they kept trying to piece together stubbornly pulled apart. |
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Above us a rataplan of thunder sounded in a swollen sky that still stubbornly refused to yield its rain. |
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Despite the advances of rationalism, a belief in the supernatural has stubbornly remained. |
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One driver stubbornly resists letting his girlfriend into his cancer-stricken life but finally relents and lets her do the driving. |
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Slowly, stubbornly ignoring the excruciating pain that lanced my spine, I turned my face toward the wall. |
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Now, it's just words, torrents of them, stubbornly arrhythmic at times and other times too clinical to have any emotional impact. |
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They have stayed stubbornly low-profile despite their high-flying husbands. |
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As the train stayed stubbornly put, she began mentally to sketch out a story about a luckless orphan who became a wizarding hero. |
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Helene got him a topflight classical guitar teacher, who found the boy stubbornly autodidactic. |
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She and Rebecca are fascinated by and constantly torment Josh, an apparently sexless boy who stubbornly refuses to develop an interest in either of them. |
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Who is more contemned than he who clings stubbornly to old moral insights? |
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Throwing good money after bad, into the black hole of the stubbornly unreformed, bureaucratic, top-heavy NHS is a cruelty, not a kindness, to patients. |
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Everyone complains that Federer, Nadal, Djokovic, and Murray shank shots but stubbornly stick to the same strategy. |
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People cling stubbornly to the worldview that sustains them. |
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Dew soaked grass and rain sodden leaves stubbornly refuse to give up their moisture, allowing the walker to squelch his way across the murky landscape. |
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She worked as an usherette at the Mosspark Cinema in Cardonald, and Patrick would stand outside, stubbornly waiting to propose again, in his bowler hat and spats. |
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Why, for example, are poverty and corruption, poor health and illiteracy, so stubbornly endemic? |
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He is like a grandfather to us, the kind who seems like he should have died a while ago and yet stubbornly clings to life. |
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The Truth could not be revealed to those who clung stubbornly to material values and had not abandoned themselves entirely to the Spiritual World. |
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She ignored them stubbornly, breathing out short puffs of air. |
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Slowly we progress across the crimson lakes of sand, silver pools of sand, enormous hillocks of sand, skirting giant rocks and stubbornly vibrant patches of thorn bush. |
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Although Sanchez stubbornly resisted, last weekend she finally buckled. |
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Unemployment in the high-tech sector remains stubbornly in double digits. |
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This emphatic analysis, along with many other stubbornly negative trials, signals the end for vitamin E as a general prophylactic against cancer and heart disease. |
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I tried suggesting he tape over the burr or maybe file it down but he stubbornly insisted that it was fine, cursing under his breath the whole time he cranked the mill. |
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Why have educational outcomes so stubbornly flat-lined in the face of this wealth of educational resources? |
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In the past, Santos has been stubbornly opposed to a bilateral ceasefire, but his position on the issue may be shifting. |
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No longer a card-carrying Communist, he nonetheless stubbornly admires Stalin and overlooks his excesses. |
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She replied stubbornly and cocked her chin slightly in defiance. |
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Most people aren't born with an exquisite sense for style and fashion, which explains why Jamz, Hawaiian shirts and jorts have stubbornly refused to go away. |
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The pace of house price increases has slowed markedly, and in many parts of the southeast of England house sales are proving to be stubbornly sticky. |
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But it might also whet the public's appetite and be less of a burden on the taxpayer should motorists stubbornly refuse to leave their cars at home. |
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Nelson, who stubbornly resisted conforming, was a problem child. |
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Otherwise, composing instruction in the mid-19th century seems to have stuck stubbornly to a mixture of figured bass and so-called strict counterpoint. |
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Eyebrows arched, he crossed his arms stubbornly over his chest. |
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In back-to-back games, the Magic was able to lure the Knicks into a run-and-gun victory, but the Heat stubbornly refused and beat Orlando in a halfcourt game. |
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Milton, however, stubbornly clung to the beliefs that had originally inspired him to write for the Commonwealth. |
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Or they must be stubbornly resisting dominant norms because they did not want to fit in. |
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The official said that Russia was suffering from stagflation, a mix of stubbornly high inflation and flat economic growth. |
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Even after Gleichschaltung, music meant so many things to so many people that that meaning proved stubbornly resistant to manipulation. |
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For so long as the judging consciousness refuses to recognize his own evil, he remains stubbornly Creonic. |
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In 1985, the economy had been out of recession for three years, but unemployment remained stubbornly high. |
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Not playing the hunger games of success, not undergoing the mechanical hoopla of PR, he could go on stubbornly being Kent Haruf, doing his job. |
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Though a herald and proclaimer of peace, he could fight stubbornly and passionately on the side of justice. |
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All have bald, bulblike heads, and eyes that stare fixedly, stubbornly, to the left or right. |
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As Lee attempts to extract the furry brown lump from its cage, Mighty Mouse clings stubbornly to its metallic bars. |
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While Skagway markets itself as industry-friendly, Haines residents remain stubbornly independent. |
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Fighting in the wood was fierce with the Germans giving ground stubbornly. |
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He stubbornly refused to quit trying, even after failing 20 times. |
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Sleeping rough on the trenches, and dying stubbornly in their boats. |
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