obstinacy
IPA: ˈɑbstʌnʌsi
noun
- The state, or an act, of stubbornness or doggedness.
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Examples of "obstinacy" in Sentences
- I'm getting very tired of your obstinacy.
- His obstinacy allowed him to do it once again.
- I have never quite seen such obstinacy and stonewalling.
- He is becoming annoying with his obstinacy and his will to harm Greeks.
- They were aware of the obstinacy and ignorance of the third world people.
- The fierceness and obstinacy of the battle can be only thus accounted for.
- The main problem is his obstinacy in the face of overwhelming disapproval.
- I prefer humility and reticence to cocksure self assuredness and obstinacy.
- The haters' behavior is most often not vandalism, just delusional obstinacy.
- At Northampton I often offended people I liked by what they called my obstinacy when a principle was at stake.
- He had been trying to persuade me to disregard what he termed the obstinacy of the old folks, and said impatiently:
- England states were equally angry at what they called the obstinacy of the South, and threats of secession were heard on both sides.
- My father, as may be imagined, was highly incensed at my perseverance, which he called obstinacy, but, what will not be so easily believed, he soon after relented, and appointed a day to take me from the convent.
- Erebus knew her brother well; she perceived that she was confronted by what she called his obstinacy; and though his brazen-faced admission had raised her to the very height of amazement and horror, she uttered no protest.
- When my parents asked me the reason of my nonattendance, I refused to answer them; and at length they became enraged at what they termed my obstinacy, and insisted that I should not fail to attend church on the following Sabbath.
- Marcus Aurelius was contemptuously astonished at what he called the obstinacy of the Christians; he knew not from what source these nameless heroes drew a strength superior to his own, though he was at the same time emperor and sage.
- The party tried to hail the steamer in the fog, wishing Lawry to put them on board of her; but her people did not hear their demand, or would not stop for them, and the party were highly incensed at what they called the obstinacy of Lawry.
- She only smiled in scorn, and those who stood by wept to see one so young and so beautiful persisting in what they termed obstinacy and rashness, and entreated her to yield; but she refused, and by her eloquent appeal so touched their hearts that forty persons declared themselves Christians, and ready to die with her.
- Not being able to vanquish what he called my obstinacy, Maisons begged me at the least to go and fix myself upon the Quai de la Megisserie, where so much old iron is sold, and examine from that spot the tower where the will was; he pointed it out to me; it looked out upon the Quai des Morforidus, but was behind the buildings on the quai.