obstinance
Example Sentences
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While the reasons behind why people forgo treatment are varied and often subjective, America’s cultural dismissal of therapy and general obstinance about prioritizing mental health gives credence to the intense backlash Biles faced post-Tokyo.
From Salon • Aug. 10, 2024
Her obstinance, becoming an unwed mother at a time when they were shunted elsewhere, creates a heap of trouble for her in a world nowhere ready for her mind, character or ambition.
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2022
Dictionaries commonly define it as purposeful adherence to an action or an obstinance to maintain a course regardless of the rules.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2022
Yet there’s enough of a gray area that it challenges even Blixen’s entitled obstinance.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2022
Yet in that glare I sometimes detected a flicker of approval, as if this streak of independence, this refusal to be shaped by him reflected his own obstinance.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
