Sentence examples for human stubbornness from inspiring English sources
Great innovations have foundered over human stubbornness.
That is a remarkable story of human stubbornness and resilience," in which a Princeton alumnus played an important role.
In the early hours of Hurricane Florence's landfall, bad luck, geography and human stubbornness made this picturesque city of 30,000 the center of North Carolina's problems.
What would Melville, the author of "Moby-Dick" so often bemused by human stubbornness and captivated by specialized techniques, have thought of Maine's curious smelt-fishing scene?
This apparently simple tale unpacks into a mellow, complex meditation on human stubbornness (for good and ill); on the environmental disaster that is happening all around us; on hope, love and the mystery of consciousness itself.
But perhaps God as lawgiver can be rescued if we just blame human stubbornness and stupidity.
Theories tend to evaporate in a crisis, leaving behind elemental human qualities: stubbornness, frustration, fear, anger, want.
Windiness threatens; it could prevail (sometimes it does) but for the array of windmill vanes she sets up -- tiny human quirks, stubbornnesses and reversals -- that put the wind to inventive fictional use.
The American scientific establishment's answer to such human foibles as stubbornness, arrogance and the unwillingness to let go of favored theories has been peer review.
Anthony Lane noted the movie's "restraint" in its depiction of its harrowing and melodramatic subject, added that it "could have been merely gruelling, but Mitchell keeps nudging scenes away from the obvious, toward the risky brink of comedy," and praised it as "a study of human quiddity and stubbornness under siege".
Ralph R. Frerichs's book is a fascinating read that also provides many insights into the strengths and weaknesses of human nature curiosity, skepticism, stubbornness, ignorance, pride, denial, deception all framed by a tragic event that has changed the lives of millions of impoverished people". bringing cholera.
