Connie Walker superbly brings her to sharp-eyed, soft-hearted, funny, faith-sustained, exasperated, bossy, stubborn, vibrant life.
But slow though the process is, it still shows stubborn signs of life.
A stubborn charmer whose life was a magnet for tragedy, Hall is the emotional centre not only of the Muscle Shoals sound but of this film.
Still, he said he held out hope that the stubborn presence of life along São Paulo's rivers might reflect the latest phase in their existence: the attempts to resurrect them.
These towns finally allowed residents to move back into their homes last week, but they are prohibited from walking outside after 6 p.m. Nearly three months after Hurricane Sandy, this is the stubborn reality of life for these towns at the center of its destruction.
Some of the comedy comes from Cathy's sudden, stubborn embrace of life – her decision to confine her restaurant dinner to "desserts and liquor" – but most arises in these early episodes from moments of shock and discomfort, laughs that are more gasp than chuckle.
For average Mexicans, the case seemed to re-confirm a stubborn fact of life in Mexico — there is practically no rule of law in the country.
The correspondence seems to be a counter-life richer than any lived one: how could it be made to accommodate the stubborn impediments of actual life?
His art is about life's stubborn difficulties, which he lays into with relish.
