How To Use Stiff-necked In A Sentence
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a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin
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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
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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.
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We look back at the stiff-necked Victorians with a smug sense of superiority.
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You really do believe in the stiff-necked priggish Edward, to the point where you want to punch him.
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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
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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
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God will not reach beyond the boundaries of your own stiff-necked, hard-of-heart will and save you against your will!
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We are a stiff-necked people and a people of long memory.
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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
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The stiff-necked philosophies of the environmental and energy lobbies have killed most of the US
Gary Liberson, PhD: Cut the Deficit: Address Global Warming
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Anyway, it was a beautiful sunny fresh powder type of day and a bunch of stiff-necked fools weren't going to spoil it.
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Peaceful demonstrators are squaring off with stiff-necked authorities over the city's refusal to grant permission for the rally they want.
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In his stiff-necked pride, Mr. Burroughs runs a hazard more humiliating to that pride than any amount of kinship with the other animals.
The Other Animals
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Once a stiff-necked practitioner who mocked and challenged authorities, an imprisoned Kevorkian promised in affidavits and requests for release that he would not assist suicides if he were released.
Assisted suicide advocate Kevorkian dies at age 83
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Opera did not take off in England in this period, partly because it was frowned on as immoral by stiff-necked Protestants, and partly because no finance was forthcoming from the state, as in France, or from municipalities, as in Italy.
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I never liked the expression stiff-necked, but yes, as I conceded to Chloë’s mother in the course of what I now realize had been planned as a goodbye and good-riddance tea, we were an implacable people.
Kalooki Nights
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My father only bought it to annoy his stiff-necked neighbours.
THE AMBASSADOR'S WOMEN
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Second, the people were stiff-necked and hard-hearted.
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And it's just as important that Republicans not be stiff-necked about working across the aisle when important work must be done," Mr. Kasich said.
Put Politics Aside, Obama Says
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If the Jewish people were not stiff-necked, we'd never have survived till today.
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This generation of unregenerated vipers was still perverse, stiff-necked, and hardened in their iniquity.
Barchester Towers
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But the stiff-necked jerk never called, and cricket has gone doolally as a result.
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What happens when I tell them that you're every bit as stiff-necked and honest as I am?
AMBERBEACH
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He appeared surprised that many in the music profession today were stiff-necked.
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Gathered together on wicker furniture are two women and a man, posing a bit as they react to the stormy weather conditions outside with a bit of stiff-necked hauteur.
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Poor stiff-necked, lonely, "hankering" Sam! to be so harshly reproved for his harmlessly sociable intents.
Sabbath in Puritan New England
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It's a long introduction designed to establish my credibility: that I have no reason to promote religion or, since I'm Jewish, the Christian religion in particular, when I say that the atheists who pushed the Nativity scenes from the park showed the very same stiff-necked intolerance that they accuse religions of.
Frank Gruber: Akedism: For Those Who Don't Care If God Exists
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Though stiff-necked and officious, the commanders aren't demonized nor singled out for blame.
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Carly just smiled, and egged the stiff-necked officer to take her turn.
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The truculent aggression and stiff-necked unilateralism of both teams are already well known.
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But if the stiff-necked transgressors cannot be persuaded, they can be cowed and conquered.
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Though stiff-necked and officious, the commanders aren't demonized nor singled out for blame.
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When a small company leveraged technology and brains to disrupt a business model or a cultural tradition, the world saw it as attractive and exciting and viewed competitors as stiff-necked bullies trying to preserve their power.
In the Plex
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For fans of witty musical numbers, there are sequences like the patter song in which Millie takes dictation from her stiff-necked boss, and repeats it at lightning speed.
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My sister jumps through hoops for her like a puppy seeking approval and I get stiff-necked in the face of Mother's orders and pronouncements.
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For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are.
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But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people and I might destroy you on the way.
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Hence the sound advice from less stiff-necked writers to young bachelors: if you're looking for a girl, check out the city's major marketplaces.
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If some of them should prove stiff-necked, what of it?
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I prefer to think that stiff-neckedness is a metaphor for being stubbornly set in one's ways.
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Some have defended the Christian faith and others have criticised it - choosing to label its adherents as stiff-necked, lobotomised fundamentalists.