Intractability

Asked by a voter how he might overcome the intractability of Mitch McConnell as president, Mr. Hickenlooper appeared to liken the Senate majority leader to a moody patron.

His music took on a new, country rock sound and his lyrics, once full of hateful tirades against minorities, now featured softer themes, such as the importance of freedom and the intractability of life.

In films about social injustice, individual feel-good narratives can prevent viewers from grappling with a system’s breadth and intractability.

The novel’s famous closing line, meditating on the intractability of history, couldn’t be less appropriate for a Dublin team that don’t seem to give yesterday a second thought.

Despite Boas's caveat about the intractability of white prejudice, he also considered it the scientist's responsibility to argue against white myths of racial purity and racial superiority, and to use the evidence of his research to fight racism.

Even with a much faster computer, the program would only be useful for very small instances and in that sense the intractability of a problem is somewhat independent of technological progress.

Intractability seeAlso Problems that can be solved in theory (e.