obstinacy
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Such obstinacy only serves to discourage personal improvement.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
Brutal humor and obstinacy bind these malcontents together for almost 15 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025
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
He has been used to overcoming the obstinacies of Nature; the human obstinacies of his new task intrigue him.
From Out To Win The Story of America in France by Coningsby Dawson
Her deep responses spoke a faith and surety that swallowed for the moment all her little sillinesses and obstinacies.
From In The Valley Of The Shadow by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
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
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
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