obstinacy

In business, it’s rare to find obstinacy mixed with integrity, and I can’t help thinking that’s the formula behind the Grand’s success.

From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025

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

Whenever I found myself up against my mother’s faith-based obstinacy, I would try, as respectfully as possible, to counter with an opposing point of view.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

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

For some reason, she felt constrained to use one of her small obstinacies.

From Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown

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

I have my obstinacies as mulish as other people's.

From The Mountebank by William John Locke