pigheadedness

“They’re not afraid to show the fragility and the pigheadedness of men,” he says.

Euro 2020 will still be an exercise in hubris and pigheadedness and get-there-itis; it will still be a monument to soccer’s unyielding self-satisfaction.

Most forebodingly: In Buchanan's case, his pigheadedness during his lame duck period heralded the outbreak of the Civil War.

Other Republican officials have been aiding and abetting Trump’s pigheadedness, too, in some cases hoping to turn it to their advantage.

Yet, whether for political advantage or out of sheer pigheadedness or both, President Trump continues to deny and ignore reality.