For the most part, critics have seen the pledge between the summoner and demon ironically: The
thickheaded summoner pledges faith to a demon whose obvious motive is to acquire his soul.(16) Yet it is important to note that their vow of camaraderie includes a pledge of exchange based on their common vocation and their status as compeers.
In a nutshell, society asks indigent defense lawyers to silence, more often than to assert, claims of constitutional rights, and is well-positioned to get that message across to the stubborn or the
thickheaded lawyer.
Ezra was so impervious - so
thickheaded, really; nothing ever touched him.
because of those
thickheaded persons who think a "church" is a sacred building' when it `should not seem unbecoming if someone describes an assembly of Christians as a "congregation"' (p.
If you want to believe in intellectual freedom and the progress of knowledge and the advancement of science and all those other good things, then you must swallow hard and accept this: for as
thickheaded and wayward an animal as us, the realistic question is how to make the best of prejudice, not how to eradicate it.
What makes little sense, from a behavioral standpoint, is Ralph being so
thickheaded that he can't pick up on Peter's hostile, laser-beam stares.
Labor's most memorable television pre-election broadcast featured a bulldog -- a traditional symbol of British patriotism but for many associated with the most snarling and
thickheaded form of xenophobia.
Bert Lance once told it right: "He campaigns liberal, but he governs conservative.' Carter did it in Georgia and he did it in Washington, and it is quite astounding that O'Neill was so
thickheaded he didn't catch on in four years.
And never until now has any kind of
thickheaded behaviour sullied its record.
Gendhi, in turn, hires two thick-muscled,
thickheaded brothers, Hector (Chris Baran) and Benny (Marc Krinsky), as his henchmen.
