stiffnecked

Philip recalled Yves's stiffnecked simplicity with a faint, appreciative smile.

A River So Long 2010

Stephen died for pointing out that it was stiffnecked and uncircumcised of David to have desired the temple (after God told him he didn't want a temple) and for Solomon to have built the thing (along with other idolatrous shrines) because God doesn't dwell in temples made with hands.

From The Archives: What Did Jesus Mean? James F. McGrath 2009

Strangely, however, so-called Christians today think that we need to help the Jews find a red heifer and rebuild that hunk of uncircumcised stiffnecked pagan junk over there.

From The Archives: What Did Jesus Mean? James F. McGrath 2009

And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken: [Stephen here makes his defense, concluding with a terrible, denunciation of the Jews as being stiffnecked and persecutors of their prophets, and as betrayers and murderers of Jesus Christ.]

The Dor�� Gallery of Bible Illustrations 2008

We come in peace, we have a finely-nuanced but not stiffnecked! cultural heritage.

dustbury.com » All that vulgar crap 2007

Thus he says (Ex. xxxiv: 9), “If now I have found grace in Thy sight, 0 Lord, let my Lord, I pray Thee, go among us; for it is a stiffnecked people.”

Theologico-Political Treatise 2007

Some passing thought that he had had a happy home within his reach – had had a household spirit bending at has feet — had overlooked it in his stiffnecked sullen arrogance, and wandered away and lost himself, may have engendered them.

Dombey and Son 2007

President Chung-hee Park was obliged to personally intervene when his stiffnecked bureaucracy kept raising objections to the costly equipment purchases being agreed to in Japan.

The Emerging Markets Century Antoine van Agtmael 2007

I don't like the idea of stiffnecked government officials deciding what we can and can't read -- and when you ban a site like Kynhun (an e-group that discussed the petty corruption of petty officials in Meghalaya as well as the possibility of seceding from the Indian union), you create a genuine grievance out of a minor kvetch.

Archive 2004-06-01 2004

Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006