He took ten years to come to terms with a very obdurate and highly original painter.
Such would actually make things worse for the countries that imposed them against the US. For the US would be obdurate and not change a thing.
For all their possession and creative intent, Arsenal were continually frustrated by the assistant referee's flag, which denied them on three occasions as they attempted to unlock a thoroughly obdurate and well-drilled Hull defence.
But the president's real skill in handling the budget has been to transform his weakness over the Lewinsky saga into a paradoxical strength: the Republicans, who were seen as obdurate extremists when the 1995 budget battle ended in a government shutdown, have been desperate not to force a second shutdown by inviting a presidential veto.
But he could certainly send a message to even his most obdurate opponents that he would use whatever tools and influence he had to demand they at least take a stand.
The irony is that until recently the Bank was worried about the obdurate strength of consumer expenditure at a time when the public sector was turning into a big spender.
Had they found a way past the obdurate defence of Matthew Hoggard or Deon Kruis, they would have moved top of Division One of the County Championship with three matches remaining.
The haredim, perhaps incongruously, could offer hope for a more temperate, less obdurate ethos of Jewish nationhood.
Even with a reformer running the Kremlin, the GDR leadership remained obdurate.
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This is a region with deep-rooted rivalries, its political rulers notoriously tricky and obdurate.
The obdurate Germans are throwing Europe into this economic chaos by refusing to allow the ECB to actually behave like a proper central bank, reflate and act like the lender of last resort.
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