pigheadedly

But it is also a counterpoint to City’s more chancy, feather-footed movements, football that seems almost pigheadedly light and airy, a style that is relentlessly luminous on a point of dogged principle.

But the goal--shedding light in a pigheadedly focused way--remains the same.

“It’s one of those things, there were a few numbers in that group where I was pigheadedly trying to go beyond what was possible for me. But isn’t that life?”

John Dec May 2nd 2013 13:54 GMT These politicians lack the competence to deal with the many problems arising from the economic crisis, yet they pigheadedly plough on with their failed policies.

His companion pigheadedly derided the fact because his own ears were not sufficiently keen to have detected the sound himself.