She expected to break their obstinate silence and get them talking.
And then clamped his lips shut in the obstinate silence of one who knows how to keep quiet.
Why do you persist in this obstinate and dangerous silence?
He felt, and misunderstood, or understood only in part, the obstinate silence walking beside him.
On the subject of all these movements the radio maintained an obstinate silence.
I said into an obstinate and expensive silence.
This obstinate silence, disturbed only by such dismal sighs and groans, began to excite in the King, not compassion, but impatience.
When these disquieting sounds had died down the same pleasant voice broke in once again on Gilda's obstinate silence.
There was then a long and obstinate silence.