obstinate

Example Sentences

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Was this Kendall and Roman’s plan all along, to be so obstinate that Matsson would give them more money just to shut them up?

From New York Times

He is intrigued by the obstinate opacity of affinity, which is so misty as to defy definition.

From Washington Post

Lord Warner, a former health minister and now a cross-party peer, says the current government approach "just looks obstinate" and that, were he in the same position, he would be talking to junior doctors.

From BBC

The consequences of this obstinate Republican-driven resistance to a program whose expense is more than 90% covered by the federal government include closures of rural hospitals and high rates of uninsured residents.

From Los Angeles Times

Miller’s playing was kinetic, especially in Owens’s vivid writing — efficiently obstinate in “Desire,” with a lovely pitter-patter of raindrops in “In time of silver rain.”

From New York Times