Attempts to understand or imagine her inner life tend to be a bit stilted, perhaps because the author is a historian, not a novelist. But this is a small cavil.
Business Secretary Vince Cable and Home Secretary Theresa May condemned on 16th that Britain's existing maternity leave rules as "old-fashioned, inflexible and gender-biased".
The Amish are often perceived by other Americans to be relics of the past who live a simple, inflexible life dedicated to inconvenient out-dated customs.
Jobs had a reputation as a control freak, and his critics complained that the products and systems he designed were closed and inflexible, in the name of greater ease of use.