On that foundation, a lot of people, mostly stiff-necked pedants, decided that golf, alone among games, was honorable.

He welcomes her back home from school, lightly disdaining the reproaches of stiff-necked relatives, even as young Emily radically outpaces his liberal purview.

Clinton’s electoral blunder, eight years ago, was her reticence to admit error of any sort—and her stiff-necked refusal to express regret for the consequences.