Sentence examples for pigheadedness from inspiring English sources

Rank-and-file Republican politicians are terrified that any pigheadedness on the part of the president could lead to a bloodbath in 2008.

The suspicion in Buenos Aires is that Cristina is paying the price for her husband's pigheadedness, even if that is something she shares.

Forcefulness can become bullying; decisiveness can turn into pigheadedness; niceness can develop into indecision.Managers who rely too much on their strengths may become hammers that see every problem as a nail.

At this moment, the Senate doesn't look so bad, but that's only because the House of Representatives has recently managed to outdo it in sheer pigheadedness — defeating the majority party's own fiscal plan, refusing to allow a vote on Hurricane Sandy aid.

At one point, the King hinted that he would offer Columbus an estate in Castile in return for dropping his many claims, but Columbus, with characteristic pigheadedness, declined.

In the laboratory, this is labeled confirmation bias; observed in the real world, it's known as pigheadedness.

Some academics have recently suggested that a scientist's pigheadedness and social prejudices can peacefully coexist with — and may even facilitate — the pursuit of scientific knowledge.

And an irrational tendency like pigheadedness can be quite an asset in an argumentative context.

In hereditary aristocracies, debacles tend to flow from stupidity and pigheadedness: think of the Charge of the Light Brigade or the Battle of the Somme.

Most of the reader reaction was critical: I was unfair to Obama, I gave short shrift to the pigheadedness of the Republicans, I was too enamored of a grand fiscal compromise, I was wrong to suggest any tampering with Medicare or Social Security, etc.

Truffaut returned that letter, along with one of his own -- 20 handwritten pages condemning the selfishness and pigheadedness of his longtime friend.