balkiness

• “He actually called him "more courageous" than Arafat, whose balkiness incensed the president.”

  Newsweek: Behind The Breakdown

• “If the administration had any doubts about China's resentment and balkiness, it lost them when Chinese President Jiang Zemin was finally heard from on Tuesday night.”

  Newsweek: A Crash In The Clouds

• “I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness and adopt a pragmatic attitude for the task ahead.”

  Archive 2007-03-01

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• “Roy decided that, without knowing how he did it, he had fortunately succeeded in curing its "balkiness.”

  Rival Pitchers of Oakdale

• “As soon as ever real balkiness is noted, it becomes necessary to avoid the least appearance of contradictoriness, since that increases difficulties.”

  Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students

• “And I, bein 'a Hammond, with some of the Hammond balkiness in me, I set my foot down as hard as his.”

  Keziah Coffin

• “On the afternoon following the colonel's visit to Mink Run, old Peter, when he came for Phil, was obliged to stay long enough to see the antics of the mechanical mule; and had not that artificial animal suddenly refused to kick, and lapsed into a characteristic balkiness for which there was no apparent remedy, it might have proved difficult to get Phil away.”

  The Colonel's Dream

• “It is in no other way that we overcome balkiness in a horse: we divert his attention, do something to his nose or ear, lead him round in a circle, and thus get him over a place where flogging would only have made him more invincible.”

  Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals

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