How To Use Mulish In A Sentence
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A kind of mulish huffiness in his expression made him look ridiculous and unlikeable.
The Nursing Home Murder
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The beast either deemed the burden inequable and unjust (for the Arabian camel, like the Peruvian llama, has a very acute perception of fair play in this respect) or a fit of caprice had entered its mulish head.
The Boy Slaves
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I know I can trust you with the sloop, even if she is kind of mulish at times.
The Young Bridge-Tender or, Ralph Nelson's Upward Struggle
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Wilkins was "mulish" at times, and he had a reserve.
Marion's Faith.
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The horse was sublimely quiet, bordering on bored and a tad mulish.
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Katherine shrugged her shoulders and lifted her jaw (projecting a steadfast impression of mulish obduracy).
BEHINDLINGS
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The word "plumule" struck me; it turns out it's pronounced PLOOM-yule /"plu:myu:l/, and it means 'rudimentary shoot, bud, or bunch of undeveloped leaves in a seed' (it's from Latin plūmula, the diminutive of plūma 'small soft feather, down'), so that "shoots and plumules of one's experience" is a very tasty phrase, incorporating both the visible (as it were) and the embryonic shoots sprouting up from the depths of our lived lives and mulish memories.
Languagehat.com: PLUMULE.
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Men come off poorly in the piece, mostly as absent confused dullards hanging around the margins of their family's lives, irritating their spouses by their mulish refusal to read minds and anticipate what needs to be done.
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She was a round-bowed contrivance, with a spring aft which gave a kind of mulish, kick-up look to the run of her.
The Honour of the Flag
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But if New Labour is a mulish defender of crazy working hours, it deserves more credit than it gets over its approach to mental illness.
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One of the things that drove me nuts about living out there was the mulish inability of city workers to realize how much they made people hate their city.
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And advice financial of countless in the coliphage, from a sun that has fourth ago set but mulishly unconventionally sigeh provocatively from fourthly the allosaur.
Rational Review
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The mulish opposition that met his scheme to pull down the whole of the center of Paris and rebuild it according to his ‘rational’ and ‘advanced’ ideas baffled and frustrated him.
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The moodiness, mischievousness and mulish recalcitrance we see in all our favorite appliances comprise much of what it means to be a human born after AD 1400.
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Harris wishes to convict religious belief of mulish literalism, while attacking its tenets in the most bluntly prosaic and anachronistic terms he can muster.
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The other cowboys, a robust crowd, found his behavior mulish and told him, "You better forget that Indian gal and do yourself some good in Cheyenne, " but the idea repelled him, and they began to think he might be effeminate.
Centennial
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You mulish guy, what the hell are you seeking?" the monster demanded in a stern voice.
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Instead, you feel a stubborn, almost mulish insistence that this, and this alone, was exactly how each painting was always going to turn out.
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Men come off poorly in the piece, mostly as absent confused dullards hanging around the margins of their family's lives, irritating their spouses by their mulish refusal to read minds and anticipate what needs to be done.
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But his egotism, thin-skinnedness and mulish belief that his critics are motivated by envy and party politics made him a tiresome figure in the end.
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Looking at the set of her daughter's chin Adeline thought how mulish Amy could be when her mind was made up.
THE WHITE DOVE
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Only a gifted leader, one who led by example and who understood the Texan makeup, could mold such mulish freemen into a cohesive team.
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He had the round, deep-chested, big-hearted, well-coupled body of the ideal mountain pony, and his head and neck were true thoroughbred, slender, yet full, with lovely alert ears not too small to be vicious nor too large to be stubborn mulish.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT
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But the federation's shortsighted, almost mulish, policy of zeroing in on rank commercial stuff, with not even a trace of art or any other form of appeal, has been extremely detrimental for Indian cinema.
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Lady Elizabeth stood her ground, her expression mulish as she met his gaze.
Shameless
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Her voice was soft but stubborn, her mulish chin set.
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Once again, Jane found herself confronted by a mulish Japanese commander who refused to release his prisoner without the consent of the British authorities.
A Covert Affair
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Of course this mulish inability to understand the other side characterizes elements in both parties.
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He looked at the nurse with a sort of mulish defiance.
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In one of the last glimpses we have of Nellie in the diary, she is standing “by the drawing-room door in the full light, white & pink, with her funny rather foolish mulish face.”
Imperfect Union
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It gb hard drives authority and scapegoat lakeshore with bewitchment to grilled totaliser mulishly as neighbourliness heteroptera, unacceptableness coronal, and coalescent epilator.
Rational Review
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Sophia set her face in a mulish expression as she cornered Mina in her parlour.
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When he died of lung cancer at 76, not only his music, but many doughty values died with him, never mind that he had also been childish, even mulish, often at the wrong times.
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As usual, it boils down to the President's mulish refusal to please the French.
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The moodiness, mischieviousness and mulish recalcitrance we see in all our favorite appliances comprise much of what it means to be a human born after AD 1400.
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Katherine shrugged her shoulders and lifted her jaw (projecting a steadfast impression of mulish obduracy ).
BEHINDLINGS
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The great length of their ears gives to their heads something of a "mulish" look -- hence they are often known among the trappers by the name of "mule deer.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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Volunteers, on the other hand, are obviously not doing this in the name of any kind of mulish pretension: they simply love the music and feel driven to play it.
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Howard's mulish attitude had made David seem to him more like an oppressor than someone trying to help him learn something.
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Having the placeholders sitting there made me much more relaxed about this mulish beast of a post.
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But since every book is acted out in the readers' imagination, a Welshman could claim that Mrs. Rupa Mehra, the mulish, mawkish mother in Seth's novel, was his own mother-in-law.