Word: headstrong
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...gown, and her straight back speaks a thousand words. Juliet's father, Lord Capulet, is a man in his sixties. William Larsen, sporting a white beard, makes this well-meaning crank fully human; he does admirably with the blustering scene in which he sputters torrents of monosyllables at his headstrong daughter...
...truth, Barlow was a vibrant Isolde. Making the most of her ample bosom, well-turned hips and (rarity of Wagnerian rarities) trim waist, she played the Irish princess as an impetuous, headstrong woman. To New York audiences who have seen almost nothing for 15 years except Birgit Nilsson's cool, ruminative portrayal, Barlow's sexy Isolde came as a pleasant shock...
...novel, is romantic, melodramatic and at times mildly erotic. Westerners will detect elements of The Perils of Pauline and The Story of O. The 3,525-line poem recounts 15 hellish years in the life of a young girl, Vuong Thuy Kieu. She is beautiful, talented, virtuous-and just headstrong enough to make her interesting in spite of her other sterling qualities. To help pay her family's debts, Kieu sells herself into concubinage and is tricked into becoming a common whore in the house of a ruthless madam. Thereafter Kieu is ravaged, reviled and degraded by a host...
Dahrendorf denies any malice in his attacks. "For me," he says, "criticism is an expression of love rather than detachment." Nevertheless, some colleagues note that he is headstrong and cannot get along with plodders. An intellectual gadfly with acerbic wit, Dahrendorf clearly likes to speak his mind...
...long-deathbed scene in Texas, Humphrey has made all the proportions of his tragedy bigger than life, almost to the point of Texas self-parody. As the mother of ten children, the dying Edwina Renshaw commands an audience of 47 descendants at her slow demise. "Bold, touchy, trifling, headstrong, wild" hemen, the Renshaw boys constitute a John Wayne collective. Their only allegiances are to the South, Texas and the Renshaws, in that ascending order. The Renshaw women flutter in the male-chauvinist background, near-hysterical victims of Big Mommy's preference for boys...