Obadiah Hadwen, the new parks commissioner, tried to explain.
He announces he's getting out of the armaments business, alarming his business partner
Obadiah Stane (a marvelous Jeff Bridges with a shaved head and goatee), who looks like he's going to stab Tony in the back every time he gives him a bearhug.Favreau and his two teams of screenwriters devote a lot of the film's unhurried first hour to developing the characters.
A boozer and brash ladies' man, the gazillionaire (originally based to a great extent on Howard Hughes) inherited Stark Industries from his late father and runs the company with his dad's partner
Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges).
Back home, he decides to take Stark Industries in a new and more peaceful direction, much to the annoyance of top exec
Obadiah Stane (Bridges).
Proudie, his sleazy overreaching chaplain,
Obadiah Slope, and the beautiful, wildly over-the-top Signora Neroni are only some of the memorable and entertaining people whose exploits listeners will follow with glee.
OBADIAH Ahab had summoned
Obadiah, the steward of the palace.
Reverend Bush was the cousin of
Obadiah Bush, who was the great-great-great-grandfather of the current president.
I remembered how, when I was a teenager in Montreal, our local observatory had a piggy bank named
Obadiah, and that every few months the club's newsletter would announce how "
Obadiah, the Observatory Pig, went shopping." Taking up so much room even in our expanded building, we dubbed the 12-inch "
Obadiah."
But his reaction about the trip to NASA was very typical: 'It was the most important thing I've ever done.' That's how the test of the 11 students from
Obadiah Knight Elementary School also felt about the annual field trip to Houston....
Set on Nantucket Island, Brinton Turkle's
Obadiah series of Four short picture books dramatizes sibling relationships and sexist roles in a Quaker Family or seven.
In considering the case of
Obadiah Knuckles-Bias/Bass ancestry, which follows, we can observe a specific link between the contemporary Monacan Indian Nation and Fort Christanna, yet this story holds an ironic twist, as the evidence supports a Nansemond heritage, in part, for
Obadiah Knuckles-Bias.
Barton treats
Obadiah, the shortest book in the Hebrew Bible, as a book of two parts (1-14, 15-21) that probably comes from different hands, though he admits it is difficult to make the case with certainty.