Plato's position on this question is a stubbornly persistent ideal, despite the equally stubborn persistence of criticism.
The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society appeared in 1970, and The Great Code: The Bible and Literature, a study of the mythology and structure of the Bible, was published in 1982.
Rangers, meanwhile, despite collecting criticism for being stubborn rather than pleasing on the eye, are a streetwise team.
Show Resilience Under Fire As Japan's Liberal Democratic Party faces its biggest challenge since its founding, de facto hereditary control of parliamentary seats is becoming the focus of criticism -- and showing stubborn resistance.
Barkley repeated a familiar criticism that Jordan was too stubborn to surround himself with anything but yes men.
In his most withering criticism, McCain called Obama's "stubborn refusal to do stupid stuff" a failure of leadership.
Stubborn, restless and fiercely competitive, he dislikes criticism, and has in the past been prepared to fail rather than to take advice (this is his judgment, not mine).
"Remove from them that stubborn pride which imagines itself to be above and beyond criticism," he said.
Deliver us from the hypocrisy of attempting to sound reasonable while being unreasonable.... Remove from them that stubborn pride which imagines itself to be above and beyond criticism.
The first is David Westwood, the notoriously stubborn chief constable of Humberside Police, who was singled out for criticism in an official inquiry into the Soham murders.
The legal battle that followed was marked by Judge Garaufis's unusually direct criticism of the city and the Fire Department, which he called "a stubborn bastion of white male privilege".
