obstinacy
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Such obstinacy only serves to discourage personal improvement.
From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026
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
At this point I should confess I have a perverse patience for the U.S. tax code, not least because I marvel at the obstinacy of its idiom.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2024
They even joined forces with him to lure Blanca out of her determined obstinacy.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
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 had armed himself against all possible whims and obstinacies, and he wore the air of a carefully adjusted patience.
From Old Crow by Alice Brown
Every one who has passed his apprenticeship has his own ideas and prejudices and obstinacies on those points.
From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Paul Heyse
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
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