From my love of right angles to my stubborn, black and white views on complex issues, I recognise I can be a very difficult person to be around.
By 1817, when he wrote his first letters to Pietro Giordani — a freethinking ex-monk who was his earliest friend and patron — Leopardi was already complaining of "the stubborn, black, horrendous, barbarous melancholy that wears away and devours me".
David Steiner, the state education commissioner, said he was "particularly concerned by the tragically stubborn gaps" between black and Hispanic students and their white and Asian counterparts.
Test scores to be released today show most states improving the performance o eighth graders in math but few gaining in fourth-grade reading and even fewer narrowing stubborn gaps between black or Hispanic students and white students, a goal President Bush has said schools should have to meet to receive federal education aid.
The Dutch are very pragmatic (and tolerant) people and I am sure they will sensibly debate this custom before it evolves from inadvertent offensiveness into knowing and stubborn stereotyping of black people.
They must close the stubborn gap that leaves black and Hispanic students -- even those with well-educated and more affluent parents -- trailing their white peers.
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.
The anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington was less a commemoration, speakers proclaimed, than an effort to inject fresh energy into issues of economics and justice that, despite undeniable progress in overcoming racial bias, still leave stubborn gaps between white and black Americans.
The panel at Martha's Vineyard intended to discuss the achievement gap, the stubborn disparity in performance between black and white students.
With a large state and local campaign to do better on tests, Texas has begun to shrink the stubborn test score gap between blacks and whites.
In every family -- typical or special needs -- we each fulfill roles: first born, middle child, baby; peacekeeper, trouble-maker, black sheep; independent, needy, stubborn.
