pertinacity

Example Sentences

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In many ways, he was like a north star, his effervescent personality and endearing pertinacity emitting a guiding light through the sport’s most transitional times.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2021

Any avant-gardist of this pertinacity should continue to provoke debate.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2017

That sensibility more or less aligned with the mood of Clinton, whose efforts had the patient pertinacity of someone trying to make a case for something reasonable at the D.M.V.

From The New Yorker • Sep. 27, 2016

It is only the pertinacity of the mind/body dichotomy that sustains the notion that a sufficient biological account of the brain would be reductionist in the negative sense.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2010

But in the end Buck’s pertinacity was rewarded; for the wolf, finding that no harm was intended, finally sniffed noses with him.

From "The Call of the Wild" by Jack London