obstinacy

She is not a champion born, and bears few of a champion’s sins – arrogance, obstinacy, a sense of entitlement.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025

Odenkirk was one of several perfectly cast actors in the episode, a force capable of matching Bernthal’s intensity and obstinacy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024

In a 17-page order, Judge Chushcoff said the employee “demonstrated obstinacy in her search” that led the State Patrol to move to discipline her; however, Loftis said the employee “subsequently left our employ.”

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024

Even more shocking were Rubiales and the Spanish federation’s steadfast attacks on Hermoso in the aftermath and their obstinacy that he had done nothing wrong, going so far as to call Hermoso a liar.

From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2023

Elizabeth fiddles with a clump of hair that’s slipped out of her roller, grimaces at its obstinacy.

From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett

The play itself is full of the standard details and recognitions pf marriage: its conversational small change and domestic small changes, its emotional freezing and boiling points, male obstinacies and female whims.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tricks, peculation, obstinacies, vanities--after this war men will still be men.

From What is Coming? by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

He was full of tricks and contradictions, obstinacies and tendernesses, this Punch-like old gentleman with the head of Shakespeare.

From The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel by Coningsby Dawson

You know there are obstinacies in the world as well as mortalities, and thereto appertaining.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon

Well," he said at last, "I have not come to quarrel with my nephew—I am here as a peace-maker, and, lo! the son starts up with all the father's old obstinacies.

From Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 1 of 3) by Frederick William Robinson