With each concession, D'Antoni's image shifts slightly, from stubborn contrarian to cold pragmatist.
Here I am, 23 years later, nearly as stubborn, slightly mellowed and hellbent on making a difference, a big one.
Old Smash Hits readers might like to know what food they order for our interview: for stubborn, lovely, slightly dotty Phil, the Cronenberg/Moroder/Boosh pilot spirit of the group, a basic ham sandwich, for bossy, mouthy and fantastically intolerant Susan, sticky chocolate cake, and for rational, down-to-earth Joanne, just a drink.
"I think she's quite stubborn, a slightly frustrated woman who struggles with being a woman in that time.
This game of bones (and groans) was widely described as a power struggle but it was not so much about control as slightly melodramatic differences of opinion between two stubborn men that in the end proved unbridgeable.
As a Best Picture nominee, it would ever so slightly darken the Oscar proceedings which, given the stubborn recurrence of killings of black men at the hands of police officers, is perhaps not the most pressing cause of our time.
Use a slightly stronger solution for hubcaps and other stubborn areas.
Publishers Weekly calls the book a "slightly offbeat firsthand account of scientific determination and stubborn intellect" that "delivers a fascinating journey of discovery peppered with humor".
That last bit, complete with the slightly petulant "at least," is quintessential Smith: salty, not overly optimistic, appealingly stubborn about going for what she wants.
