Recalcitrant

recalcitrant







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[ri-kal-si-truhnt]



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–adjective 

1. resisting authority 

or 

control; not obedient or compliant; refractory. 



2. hard to deal with, manage, or operate. 



–noun 

3. a recalcitrant person.





　

Even in this perversely recalcitrant world, the Coens find their puppets an endless source of amusement. 



Dragging ponderously on a cigarette as he pretends to cut a customer's hair, Thornton gives an exceedingly dry performance. His surface catatonia conceals a busy inner life that's expressed in morose voice-over, complete with metaphysical musings on the fact that, even after death, hair "just keeps growing." 



As though the turgid stream of consciousness were insufficient, Thornton's non-reactive taciturnity is accentuated by juxtaposing him [with] the effusive McDormand and keeping him surrounded by a gaggle of garrulous gargoyles. 



In a typical Cain touch, Thornton fixates [on] a sensitive teenage girl (Scarlett Johansson)—drawn by her rendition of Beethoven's lugubrious "Moonlight Sonata" in the midst of a department store Christmas party. 





refractory 

a refractory [child]. 

bigotry

which has an endless bigotry-friendly pocket book to give to [Proposition 8] in California.

intransigence

British government's intransigence over recognizing convicted IRA members as [political] prisoners

persevere

Though frequently disillusioned in her efforts to [spread] good will — at one point she is nearly killed by a mental patient — Sister Luke [perseveres]. 

doggedly

dodgy

intractable

not docile

the intractable [pain] in his leg.  

budge

He stepped on the gas but the [car] didn't budge.  

She won't budge from her [opinions].

when a frustrated [cadre] of student environmentalists attempts to liberate... The [animals] won't budge.

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