Instead, Ms. Moffett stubbornly focused on how she had helped the girl.
To read "Since Yesterday" at this particular moment — with the economy hanging in the balance, with President Obama's jobs program already voted down in the Senate, with fiscal policy so stubbornly focused on the wrong things — is to fear that we are headed for worse times ahead, not better times.
The Eurocentric Danes dismissed surround sound as a vulgar American fad and stubbornly focused on old-fashioned two-channel stereo products.
I have witnessed, for the first time in my child's career as a person much foot-stamping, whining and a characteristic certainly not exclusive to small children: an inability to appreciate her good fortune in life while stubbornly focusing on something she feels denied.
Even as millions of Egyptians took to the streets, and the military deposed President Mohamed Morsi, CNN kept its focus stubbornly on a Sanford, Fla., courtroom.
This mandate, however, has been narrowly interpreted by successive generations of memorial officials whose Anzac-centric focus continues to stubbornly exclude the fierce battles for sovereignty between Aboriginal Australians and pastoral settlers across the frontier, which are at the dark heart of Australia's nationhood.
And when the government shuts down, House leadership will be to blame for stubbornly and selfishly putting their focus on political "wins" over the best interests of the American people and the 800,000 federal workers who depend on their government paychecks.
As politicians return to Westminster for a new term, the prime minister is focused on the stubbornly lagging economy, which is a drag on the coalition's popularity and his own.
Although the film gives each of her children enough screen time to register a personality, it focuses on the radiant, stubbornly bratty 8-year-old Simone, her father's favorite, whom Morgana Davies portrays with an exceptional force and confidence.
