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Significats de obstinacy en anglès

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Resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires.

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      Examples for "stubbornness"
      Examples for "stubbornness"
      1
      The natural stubbornness on which he had counted hardened in her face.
      Black Jack
      2
      Don't think I am not aware of the source of your stubbornness.
      Foundation and Empire
      3
      Some call this principle, a kind of stubbornness the hard left admire.
      The Guardian
      4
      I've got a bit of faith in the stubbornness of human nature.
      The new yorker
      5
      But he doesn't say this; he has a stubbornness to match hers.
      Rabbit, run
      1
      He did not like this mulishness, this almost ostentatious look of obduracy.
      Misery
      2
      And Lanyard shrugged appreciation of the futility of more contention against such mulishness.
      The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
      3
      The acute form of this mulishness is writer's block.
      The new yorker
      4
      I shall not tell the name of the book (mere mulishness!)
      Wappin' Wharf: A Frightful Comedy of Pirates
      5
      Separate honor from mulishness if you can.
      Kings of the earth: a novel
      1
      Oh, you've got some of the old man's pigheadedness, have you?
      The Colossus: A Novel
      2
      For all his pigheadedness, Toby had a base, savage cunning.
      Nemesis
      3
      Between Nate's pigheadedness and her responsibilities, she hadn't had much play in her life.
      Beat of Temptation
      4
      Gee, labor is unrestful... and gee, the pigheadedness of bosses!
      An American Idyll / The Life of Carleton H. Parker
      5
      I could still recall the words she had used, 'selfishness' and 'pigheadedness' were merely two.
      Under orders
      1
      Then he thought it up, and we break through his bullheadedness.
      Mildred Pierce
      2
      Do you know what you've done with your bullheadedness?
      Youth Challenges
      3
      Presson understood better, but could not forgive the bullheadedness that seemed to be wrecking their political plans.
      The Ramrodders: A Novel
      4
      The understaffing of the reconstruction and the lack of post-combat planning wasn't the result merely of Donald Rumsfeld's bullheadedness.
      The new yorker
      5
      Other was plain, human bullheadedness.
      The Phantom Herd
      1
      And Jennie's cocky obstinance indicated she was aware of it.
      The President's Assassin
      2
      Ferrell's Lars is a character whose obstinance makes it hard to root for him.
      News.com.au
      3
      But the urgency outside has only met a wall of politics and obstinance inside the convention centre.
      Radio NZ
      4
      Her eyes were glittery with renewed obstinance.
      Wife for hire
      1
      It needs much discipline and watchfulness; it excludes all self-will and selfishness.
      Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. John Chapters I to XIV
      2
      Johnson asserted the power of intellect and self-will over mind and body.
      The Guardian
      3
      There is music in heaven, because in music there is no self-will.
      Daily Thoughts: selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley b...
      4
      In this case, the bondage of self-will is found to be absolute.
      Sermons to the Natural Man
      5
      There was neither self-will, perverseness, nor antagonism, in this; but paralysis instead.
      The Hand but Not the Heart; Or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring
      Ús de obstinacy en anglès
      1
      There is something awful in the obstinacy of the assaults upon us.
      Catharine Furze
      2
      The general's patience was gradually vanishing in the face of such obstinacy.
      A Little Traitor to the South / A War Time Comedy with a Tragic ...
      3
      That, and a good portion of obstinacy, he thought with a smile.
      The hangman's daughter
      4
      Wherever they passed, there did the fight augment in obstinacy and fury.
      Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
      5
      The girl comprehended without hearing, and shook her head in sullen obstinacy.
      Love Stories
      6
      I sense more here than simple stubbornness, more even than sinful obstinacy.
      Gather, Darkness!
      7
      The old woman stuck to her guns with the obstinacy of age.
      The Making of a Soul
      8
      The Imperials refused to break; Ullen had to admire their inspired obstinacy.
      Return of the Crimson Guard
      9
      Perhaps Shairez was about to explain that obstinacy of theirs to him.
      Out of the dark
      10
      Her ivory forehead was wrinkled charmingly in a little frown of obstinacy.
      Within the Law: From the Play of Bayard Veiller
      11
      And there was a sort of dull, lifeless obstinacy in his voice.
      In the Wilderness
      12
      And the obstinacy of monarchs is not as that of other men.
      Queen Victoria
      13
      But she had steeled herself to obstinacy against him in all things.
      The Way We Live Now
      14
      You are only lowering yourself in my estimation by showing this obstinacy.
      Man and Maid
      15
      It is downright obstinacy-forgiveme for saying so-topersist in your refusal.
      The Black Robe
      16
      He looked at the fixed obstinacy of the Archdeacon's face and said:
      The Cathedral: A Novel
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