| Auden was stressing a moral difficulty of war, which is exactly what Orwell, in a fit of mulishness, claimed he had failed to do. |
| But some will see the U.S. position as more American mulishness. |
| Mark is at times severe with Donald Davidson, exposing the flaws in his poetry when he finds them and addressing Davidson's occasional lapses into mulishness and petulance. |
| When very highly developed with the reasoning powers weak it often manifests as stubborness, mulishness, obstinacy, etc. |
| He put it down to his own mulishness that he had hung on and had learned through the little boy of her removal from the palace. |
| Editorialising on the President's acceptance speech, the New York Times also focused on his self-congratulating mulishness. |
