"A nice cup of tea," he said, in a voice to soothe the most recalcitrant child.

"I wasn't feeling sorry for myself," he said softly, sounding just ever so slightly like a recalcitrant child.

The master of the mages continued, as if talking to recalcitrant children.

Did you just shrug it all off as the discipline needed to control a recalcitrant child?

She was three years his senior, but she treated him as a teacher would a recalcitrant child.

A look at those hard numbers might be enough to push a recalcitrant child into college.

He spoke to her as to a recalcitrant child.

The doctor was watching him as she would a recalcitrant child.

She spoke as a mother to a recalcitrant child, demanding obedience.

Parents often scolded their recalcitrant children to be more like David and to stay out of trouble.