Auden was stressing a moral difficulty of war, which is exactly what Orwell, in a fit of mulishness, claimed he had failed to do. |
Editorialising on the President's acceptance speech, the New York Times also focused on his self-congratulating mulishness. |
The inexplicable mulishness of big business was the only thing that held back widespread adoption of solar power. |
He put it down to his own mulishness that he had hung on and had learned through the little boy of her removal from the palace. |
When very highly developed with the reasoning powers weak it often manifests as stubborness, mulishness, obstinacy, etc. |
Where Jack's fall from grace leads to madness and divine regime change, Sal opts for mulishness. |