The intaglio Coetzee who emerges from the women's accounts is an unprepossessing figure, cold, awkward, remote, stubborn, foolish.
Ultimately, this three-film, 15-year epic "about the adventures of a bunch of silly plastic junk turns out also to be a long, melancholy meditation on loss, impermanence and that noble, stubborn, foolish thing called love," Mr. Scott added.
Writing in The New York Times, A. O. Scott said that the adventures turn out "to be a long, melancholy meditation on loss, impermanence and that noble, stubborn, foolish thing called love".
That is, this film — this whole three-part, 15-year epic — about the adventures of a bunch of silly plastic junk turns out also to be a long, melancholy meditation on loss, impermanence and that noble, stubborn, foolish thing called love.
"This film — this whole three-part, 15-year epic — about the adventures of a bunch of silly plastic junk turns out also to be a long, melancholy meditation on loss, impermanence and that noble, stubborn, foolish thing called love," Mr. Scott wrote in The Times in June.
Audiences surveyed by Cinemascore gave the film a grade A rating. A. O. Scott of The New York Times stated, "This film this whole three-part, 15-year epic about the adventures of a bunch of silly plastic junk turns out also to be a long, melancholy meditation on loss, impermanence and that noble, stubborn, foolish thing called love".
I see Eight Belles's death as heroic in that sense — stubborn and foolish, shocking and tragic, but not, in the end, an accident.
I see Eight Belles' death as heroic in that sense — stubborn and foolish, shocking and tragic, but not, in the end, an accident.
He's divorced, and slowly realizes he's in love with a woman whose situation — married, two kids and suffering from cancer — would certainly put off a less stubborn or foolish man.
"I was either stubborn or foolish, but I was unwilling to give up on my dreams," The South Bend Tribune quoted him as telling a College Football Hall of Fame luncheon in 2007.
"There is something amazing going on, which has gone on for a very long time, but which has fallen completely out of view behind the romantic, touristy view of the Lake District," he says, "and I am stubborn enough and foolish enough to want to stick my head up and say: 'That's bullshit.
