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Working on it until six days before his death, the sculptor chiselled a pathetic Mary struggling to hold up the dead Jesus, a strange throwback to medieval sculpture for his last tussle with recalcitrant stone.
But we would not allow such apparently recalcitrant sensory experience to change our minds about the original sentence.
Ha'aretz said in its editorial Wednesday that he and "the recalcitrant political fringes to which he was captive" had effectively frozen the Oslo agreements but that Barak "now has a renewed opportunity to make peace with the Palestinians and to attain a real peace with all our neighbors, with Syria at the head."
When the famous unifiers Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa fought to end the 16th-century civil wars, Hideyoshi used Himeji as a base of operations against the recalcitrant warlords of Western Honshu.
Atheists of a non-Marxist stripe were also recalcitrant.