obdurateness

We are laughing for her — for all the indignities her characters have endured and their obdurateness in the face of them — and we are laughing for ourselves and our own hopes of indestructibility.

United fans used to love Roy Keane for his obdurateness and his perception of himself as a Cork Hercules.

Now United fans seem to hate Roy Keane for his obdurateness and his perception of himself as a Cork Hercules, notes Rob Bagchi.

No foxy sycophant tricking unwary ladies with oiled flatteries for which they can ill afford to pay, Artist Brush had better things to do last week than to gloat upon the precedent his suit had established or to bewail the obdurateness of Mrs. Brooks-Aten.

No stable did we pass so poor, none so mean, that he was ashamed to pause and offer to enter with meek obdurateness.