Juan Williams

The teachers' unions that block school reform have done serious damage to the union brand. The public no longer views unions as their friend, much less their champion. They view them as corrupt, intransigent and more interested in protecting their political clout within the Democratic Party than protecting their members or even school children.

American Journalist

Roy Bennett

There is absolutely no doubt that Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF have lost the popular support of the people of Zimbabwe. And the more they become intransigent, the more they become vicious and try to repress people, the more it turns people against them, and the less chance they have of ever holding onto power.

Zimbabwean Politician

Allen Tate

According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.

American Poet

Use 'intransigent' to describe someone hindering agreement by not altering their viewpoint.

Negotiation Breakdown

'Intransigent' is often used in politics to describe leaders or parties that won’t compromise.

Political Context

It implies a rigid, often negative, unwillingness to change, not just firmness.

Suggests Rigidity

When calling someone an 'intransigent', you label them as consistently uncompromising.

Personification of Stubbornness

As a noun, 'intransigent' often has a critical tone, indicating disapproval.

Negative Connotation

Although common in politics, 'intransigent' can describe anyone inflexible in opinion.

Not Always Political

 we make a colossal mistake taking it for granted. We see democracy not as the most fragile of flowers that it really is, but we see it as part of our society's furniture. We tend to think of it as an intransigent given.