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stiff-necked

adjective as in doctrinaire

adjective as in dogmatic

adjective as in pig-headed

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adjective as in pigheaded

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adjective as in set

adjective as in stern

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adjective as in stubborn

adjective as in uncompromising

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adjective as in unfaltering

adjective as in unrelenting

adjective as in unyielding

adjective as in willful

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But like the Targaryens, the elves and men of “The Rings of Power,” are far too stiff-necked to make any sort of joke.

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Bateman pointed to a gold frame with inlaid flowers, containing sketches of a mustachioed man in a tuxedo and a serious woman in a stiff-necked dress.

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The elves, half or whole, in “Rings of Power” are a stiff-necked bunch, less otherworldly than socially repressed.

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Watson is in a perpetual state of stiff-necked choler tinged with snobbery — “I am better educated, more wealthy and stronger than you are,” he tells Bea, who is unmoved.

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Ms. Goldsmith described the Jews here as a “stiff-necked people,” borrowing a biblical phrase for stubbornness, and said they were not going anywhere.

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