Word: headstrong
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...Wright’s version, “Pride & Prejudice,” adds little to the incomparable plot and adored characters other than an ampersand, the newest adaptation is a luxurious visit to Austen’s always welcoming world. The timeless love story of clever and headstrong Elizabeth Bennett (Keira Knightley) and brooding Mr. Darcy (Matthew MacFadyen) is set against the contrasting rigidity of pre-Victorian England’s deeply ingrained social conventions. Elizabeth is one of five Bennett sisters, including the beautiful, eldest sister Jane (Rosamund Pike, “Die Another Day?...
Anyone who doubts that children are born with a healthy amount of ambition need spend only a few minutes with a baby eagerly learning to walk or a headstrong toddler starting to talk. No matter how many times the little ones stumble in their initial efforts, most keep on trying, determined to master their amazing new skill. It is only several years later, around the start of middle or junior high school, many psychologists and teachers agree, that a good number of kids seem to lose their natural drive to succeed and end up joining the ranks of underachievers...
...them, her bittersweet performance in Look at Me, earned a nomination for Most Promising Actress at the César awards, France's version of the Oscars. Now, in the just-opened film Once Upon a Time in the Oued, she's winning plaudits for her role as a headstrong young woman who wins the hero's heart and makes his unlikely dream come true. Yet for an actress keen to establish a cinematic identity all her own, it's not easy emerging from the shadow of a larger-than-life mother. In addition to looking like her mom, Berry...
...often innovative business career, William Norris, founder and chairman of Control Data, has gained a controversial reputation. To admirers he is the visionary who created a company that built the first supercomputers and quickly grew into a major force in the data-processing industry. To critics, Norris is a headstrong executive who has squandered corporate resources on well-intentioned but unprofitable social projects and stayed too long at the head of his now ailing firm...
Many actors might play such a character with wicked intensity. McShane excels at bringing out Swearengen's contradictions, not just with bluster but also with "the slightest gesture and simple stare," in the words of Timothy Olyphant, who plays Seth Bullock, the town sheriff and Swearengen's headstrong counterweight. Swearengen is coarse yet intelligent, brutal yet subtle. "He is the primitive in the modern world," says McShane. "Swearengen is the smartest man in town, but he knows that because of his nature he will not be accepted. So he pulls the strings behind the scenes...