What is the percentage for mulishness that the Obama Campaign needs to factor into a strategy for winning electoral votes?. From Wordnik.com. [Mayhill Fowler: Iowa Republican Change Candidate] Reference
He put it down to his own mulishness that he had hung on and had learned through the little boy of her removal from the palace. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Darkened Windows] Reference
It was very easy to see who the boy's parents were; the sweetness of the mother's temper was mingled with the mulishness of the father's. From Wordnik.com. [This Scepter'd Isle]
But I was not to be put off, which is something I never completely understand about myself: the streak of mulishness that asserts itself at inopportune moments. From Wordnik.com. [The mission song]
It is all very ill-advised: Althea is strong-willed to the point of mulishness, they have this disowned Trader's son at the helm and some foreigner providing money. From Wordnik.com. [The Mad Ship]
"Owing to the asinine mulishness of S-- H, and three between --". From Wordnik.com. [Tom, Dick and Harry] Reference
Sissy's mulishness, when the hardening process had really set in. From Wordnik.com. [The Madigans] Reference
I can't see a woman sacrificed -- even if it's your own mulishness!. From Wordnik.com. [The Huntress] Reference
"Owing to the asinine mulishness of Sarah --" Here an interruption occurred. From Wordnik.com. [Tom, Dick and Harry] Reference
Marcus Woodman's got so much mulishness in him it makes him almost miraculous. From Wordnik.com. [A Conflict Ended] Reference
What President Bush's critics considered mulishness, the Iraqis saw as steadfastness. From Wordnik.com. [LJWorld.com stories: News] Reference
I shall not tell the name of the book (mere mulishness!) but I hope you know it or can guess. From Wordnik.com. [Wappin' Wharf A Frightful Comedy of Pirates] Reference
And Lanyard shrugged appreciation of the futility of more contention against such mulishness. From Wordnik.com. [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference
What President George W. Bush's critics considered mulishness, the Iraqis saw as steadfastness. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
With his usual mulishness, Sarah thought he'd have a cut in, and it was resolved to give him a chance. From Wordnik.com. [Tom, Dick and Harry] Reference
"Humph," half laughed the lawyer, though with obvious disgust at the mulishness in Peter's face and voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him] Reference
“Humph,” half laughed the lawyer, though with obvious disgust at the mulishness in Peter's face and voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him]
"Owing to the asinine mulishness of --" here the speaker pointed at me with his thumb -- "of the asinine mule in the chair --". From Wordnik.com. [Tom, Dick and Harry] Reference
Having found himself out, unless his mulishness is almost past sanity, he begins to reject his habit of resistance of his own accord. From Wordnik.com. [Nerves and Common Sense] Reference
That can be a steep price to pay to feed somebody's persistence habit though mulishness might be the more appropriate description of the condition. From Wordnik.com. [DesiPundit] Reference
Her face was still comely, and there was the mild mulishness in her expression that is seen in the countenances of many amiable yet obstinate persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Miller Of Old Church] Reference
A sort of passive mulishness it was, impervious to argument, immovable under the most sympathetic pressure, which particularly tried the Dabney patience. From Wordnik.com. [The Market-Place] Reference
When the tactlessness, bad temper, or general mulishness of man wrings unwilling tears from her eyes, there is no sympathy to be gained from that impalpable presence. From Wordnik.com. [The Spinster Book] Reference
It had been a pet mule in a family of children until Collins's keen eyes rested on it; and it had known only love and kindness and much laughter for its foolish mulishness. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 26] Reference
I have more than once seen a driver hitch a harnessed animal to the halter, and by that process haul his mulishness forward, while each of his four projected feet would leave. From Wordnik.com. [The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway] Reference
If they failed in their duty through incapacity or mulishness, nothing was easier than to get rid of them; there were others to choose from -- dozens of others, waiting for the job!. From Wordnik.com. [South Wind] Reference
He scolded at her -- "rather than abate a jot of your confounded mulishness.". From Wordnik.com. [The Market-Place] Reference
But the Englishman could not help his mulishness. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
Our plot was justified by his mulishness. From Wordnik.com. [Once Aboard the Lugger] Reference
(6) 7Actions by interpretation manifest mulishness. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XI No 1] Reference
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