balkiness

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

Behind The Breakdown 2008

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.

A Crash In The Clouds 2007

"I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness..."

Archive 2007-02-01 Ann Althouse 2007

Althouse: "I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness..."

"I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness..." Ann Althouse 2007

"I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness..."

"I had to set aside that obsolescent hippie balkiness..." Ann Althouse 2007

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

Archive 2007-03-01 Ann Althouse 2007

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

Rival Pitchers of Oakdale Morgan Scott

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 1911

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

Keziah Coffin Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

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 1895