This N.F.L. lockout really was an old-fashioned labor lockout, and it was undertaken with all of the bullheadedness, emotional decision-making, and collective stupidity that can accompany the worst confrontations between American management and organized labor.
His bullheadedness, however, does not explain why Jena's narrative has resonated so broadly.
The two had similar personality traits: a sense of humor, brashness, bullheadedness and an aversion to Republican orthodoxy and hierarchy.
Changing currency pegs in Switzerland, allowing the renminbi to appreciate in China or ongoing bullheadedness in Washington could make today's emergency rafts look less seaworthy.
If bullheadedness isn't always in the financial interest of the artist, it can certainly help the art.
Paul Quinn College may not be out of the woods yet, but through a combination of vision, bullheadedness, and the kind of charisma that begets donations and good will (Mr. Sorrell is also a Texas bundler for President Obama), he has steered the college from the brink of closing to its new perch as an emerging national and community leader.
Using a combination of education, love for animals and the land, and sheer bullheadedness, the Manzanareses have spent the last 30 years trying to figure out what a modern, sustainable family ranch might look like.
The understaffing of the reconstruction and the lack of post-combat planning wasn't the result merely of Donald Rumsfeld's bullheadedness.
Robert Grossman plays Orgon with the sanctimonious bullheadedness of a true believer.
"I suppose it's just the patience I got from my mother, Doris, and the ornery bullheadedness I got from Pap".
That bullheadedness can turn into a matter of life and death, according to Dr. Coyne's study, published last year in The American Journal of Cardiology.
