How To Use stiff-necked In A Sentence
- a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin
- Milan, not in trunk hose and slashed sleeves, nor in "French standing collar, treble quadruple daedalian ruff, or stiff-necked rabato, that had more arches for pride, propped up with wire and timber, than five Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth
- Shakespeare's Coriolanus, for example, gives us the tragedy of a great military hero brought down by his stiff-necked inability to credit the legitimacy - even, the collective humanity - of larger society.
- We look back at the stiff-necked Victorians with a smug sense of superiority.
- You really do believe in the stiff-necked priggish Edward, to the point where you want to punch him.
- Then we knights of the quill are a stiff-necked generation, who as seldom care to seem to doubt the worth of our writings, and their being liked, as we love to flatter more than one at a time; and had rather draw our pens, and stand up for the beauty of our works (as some arrant fools use to do for that of their mistresses) to the last drop of our ink. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- Just like the text by Itard on which it is based, Truffaut's film expresses both the romanticism of Victor's impassioned longing for the woods and the moon, and also the clinical compassion with which his stiff-necked, reserved teacher offers him the values of civilisation. Truffaut: growing backwards into childhood
- God will not reach beyond the boundaries of your own stiff-necked, hard-of-heart will and save you against your will!
- We are a stiff-necked people and a people of long memory.
- We have also seen how a people can be deserving of a type of leader such as dictator due their own characteristics, and as in the case of Moses and his people, how a good leader can be the head of a stubborn, stiff-necked and uncooperative mass. Asad Khan: Spiritual Awakening & the Future of Our World