obstreperousness

General Adam, despite his obstreperousness, was left in overall command in the west.

Civility has ceded the stage to obstreperousness.

The National Party's obstreperousness could bode ill for South Africa.

The imperfect sight lines are made worse by roving seat-hunters with all the obstreperousness of hungry pigeons.

Martini ever at the ready, she discusses all with a frisky obstreperousness fringed with vulgarity.

"Valentine isn't a dream or an illusion, Ender," said Miro, refusing to be sidetracked into a discussion of his own obstreperousness.

In any case he probably had no idea how bad things were...and he could probably have passed a much bigger, more effective stimulus without Republican Obstreperousness.

These works maintain a credible degree of obstreperousness, but the progression from the unsalable facade treatment to portable objects is striking and something of a letdown.

Half an hour later the scouts emerged from the city, herding before them those folk who, from obstreperousness or simple inertia, had elected to remain in Pera.

The judge's imperiousness and obstreperousness, and Sarah's bewildered attempts to placate him while steering him to concentrate on his memoirs, provide the play's mild comic energies.

He writes, "Looking over one's shoulder at the season just closed, as is conventional practice at this time of year, one is impressed most of all by its general obstreperousness.

But some lawyers question whether the code will change their everyday routine because it is voluntary - it contains no penalties for not returning telephone calls or failing to shake that old-fashioned obstreperousness.

Bolaño's obstreperousness was sometimes a pose-much like his preference for being photographed in a black leather jacket, sternly sucking on a cigarette-but his self-described "gratuitous attacks" had salutary effects.

The Haitian Parliament is a fractious group with a long history of extreme partisanship, unpredictable behavior and obstreperousness, its deliberations viewed by many Haitians as a sort of opera bouffe.

"As I was saying," Kaeritha continued in the tone of a governess ignoring her charges' obstreperousness, "I haven't really received any specific instructions about exactly what I'm supposed to be doing here."

Is scrappy, aggressive, argumentative New York, whose lawyers pride themselves on their bare-knuckled obstreperousness, finally ready to forsake traditional litigation for the more rational, orderly and private world of mediation and arbitration?

With equal parts obstreperousness and charm, political savvy and old-fashioned hard work, she has rallied parents, politicians and community groups to the anti-Edison cause, making the company's future in New York ever more uncertain.

Luhring Augustine 531 West 24th Street, Chelsea Through Nov. 2 This exhibition shows the influential performance and installation artist Paul McCarthy sailing ever closer to traditional sculpture, while maintaining a characteristic obstreperousness of form, subject and process.

Wakeup calls are sure to come, not only in Mr. Mehta's dealings with the Philharmonic players, though their reputation for obstreperousness seems happily to have faded in recent years, but also in his dealings with the unwieldy bureaucracy of Lincoln Center.

It is not necessary for Mr. Bode's tantrum-throwing Harlequin, perhaps a Captain Kangaroo leftover, to prove the point when the maid, Marton, calls him idiotic, or for his effortful cartwheels and overall obstreperousness to make of the playful figure such a spoilsport.

Out of old horse harness straps scrounged from a neighbor and a supply of heavy canvas and thread, the twin pouches were laboriously fashioned during finger-pricking sittings beside the yellow light of kerosene, sessions enlivened by "fittings" during which Yukon behaved either with patient decorum or with hilarious obstreperousness.

Yet near the end of his address, in a gesture clearly aimed at G.O.P. obstreperousness, he produced a Government worker names Richard Dean who had been a hero during the 1994 bombing of the Federal building in Oklahoma City but was thrown out of a job when the Government shut down last November.