It seems inequality gets even more firmly entrenched when a woman or person of colour gets to the very top.
His last film, the ballet-horror Black Swan, was rejected all over town, even more firmly than when he proposed to resurrect Mickey Rourke's career with The Wrestler.
Liars often press their lips together more firmly and frequently when not telling the truth.
And in situations where businesses have to push through efficiency improvements, family owners may be more willing to act firmly when dealing with labour unions, because of their significant stake in the business, than salaried outsider bosses, the studies suggest.
As Frank Trentmann argues in his forthcoming book The Empire of Things: "It was when debt became more firmly associated with the poor that it spelled moral shame".
On Friday, the New York Post's Ralph Peters, than whom no man is more firmly anti-bleeding heart, wrote that "when the shooting starts, even the best-trained, most disciplined soldiers and cops US Army Rangers or NYPD SWAT members don't put every round on target.
When he identified more firmly as being a trans man, he travelled to Israel with his movement Habonim Dror.
The trick was to engineer a multi-layered coating whose layers, when struck with UV light, bond more firmly to each other and to cotton.
Instead, many of the things I tried to escape when I moved to New York feel more firmly entrenched.
Traditionally minded women perhaps base their identities more firmly on their gender roles, and think only of other women when they evaluate their privilege and opportunities.
