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• s  haughtily stubborn
  a stiff-necked old Boston brahmin

• Confronting a Muslim and Arab audience with the fact that Israel's stiff-necked stance has something to do with "the constant hostility and attacks throughout its history from .
• Among them was the murder of Sikorski, a stiff-necked patriot who infuriated Stalin first by demanding the postwar return of Polish territories annexed by Russia, then by calling .
• For his part, Gore was long criticized for being stiff-necked and arrogant, a policy wonk without humility or a sense of proportion.

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• Nelson Mandela in International Herald Tribune
  Mandela recalled going into the meeting thinking he was seeing "the very model of the old-fashioned, stiff-necked, stubborn Afrikaner who did not so much discuss matters with black leaders as dictate to them."
• Ken Jacobsen in Seattle Post Intelligencer
  They've asked for a few appointments, I've declined and that's been the end of it,Jacobsen said. "They've given up bullying me, I'm a stiff-necked Scandinavian."
• Tennessee Williams in New Yorker
  Baldwin invests Jaffe with what Tennessee Williams called the "stiff-necked pride of the defeated."