obduracy

He respected her obduracy because it was not much different from his own.

Thomas quickly became known for his obduracy in the seat negotiations with the Liberals.

Scarcity and the obduracy of nature are real things.

With all due respect, Commissioner, we can no longer accept this absurd obduracy.

Like his obduracy, her own stubbornness had been born in loss and guilt.

In its place was a stony obduracy the gunslinger had seen before.

Wolves' obduracy was a real compliment to his side.

They stole the points through obduracy rather than invention.

My longstanding choice of tools is not a matter of obduracy.

No stylist, he could tailor his game to the needs of the side, providing obduracy or attack as required.

But his formidable will met its match this week in the mythic obduracy of Albany.

His obduracy on these issues could have been dangerous in the heated atmosphere of those early months in 1341.

Tears of vexation rose from her loving heart at Louise's obduracy.

The reaction to her tense obduracy had left her apathetic.

This obduracy has now had its long-predicted consequences, but the administration remains obstinate.

Oh, the account was growing long, and Owain's obduracy became ever easier to understand.

Even foreign aid programmes struggled to implement under the weight of bureaucratic obduracy.

That granite obduracy might be attributed to her New England upbringing.

And these isolated few usually soon lose their zeal for putting things to rights when they have come face to face with human obduracy.

He did not like this mulishness, this almost ostentatious look of obduracy.

But each doubling, strictly speaking, is never a reflection; each has its own specific weight and obduracy.

Try to grasp the remoteness of those summits, and understand the obduracy of the man.

As I recite these grievances, you listen with a face of bored amusement and obduracy."

He considered her for a moment, but under his grave expression lay an obduracy that reminded her how little she really knew of him.

She will listen with a tranquil air, and the spectacle of her obduracy will drive me to some desperate act.