The trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior.
Resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires.
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Examples for "obstinacy"
Examples for "obstinacy"
1There is something awful in the obstinacy of the assaults upon us.
2The general's patience was gradually vanishing in the face of such obstinacy.
3That, and a good portion of obstinacy, he thought with a smile.
4Wherever they passed, there did the fight augment in obstinacy and fury.
5The girl comprehended without hearing, and shook her head in sullen obstinacy.
1The natural stubbornness on which he had counted hardened in her face.
2Don't think I am not aware of the source of your stubbornness.
3Some call this principle, a kind of stubbornness the hard left admire.
4I've got a bit of faith in the stubbornness of human nature.
5But he doesn't say this; he has a stubbornness to match hers.
1Oh, you've got some of the old man's pigheadedness, have you?
2For all his pigheadedness, Toby had a base, savage cunning.
3Between Nate's pigheadedness and her responsibilities, she hadn't had much play in her life.
4Gee, labor is unrestful... and gee, the pigheadedness of bosses!
5I could still recall the words she had used, 'selfishness' and 'pigheadedness' were merely two.
1Then he thought it up, and we break through his bullheadedness.
2Do you know what you've done with your bullheadedness?
3Presson understood better, but could not forgive the bullheadedness that seemed to be wrecking their political plans.
4The understaffing of the reconstruction and the lack of post-combat planning wasn't the result merely of Donald Rumsfeld's bullheadedness.
5Other was plain, human bullheadedness.
1And Jennie's cocky obstinance indicated she was aware of it.
2Ferrell's Lars is a character whose obstinance makes it hard to root for him.
3But the urgency outside has only met a wall of politics and obstinance inside the convention centre.
4Her eyes were glittery with renewed obstinance.
1It needs much discipline and watchfulness; it excludes all self-will and selfishness.
2Johnson asserted the power of intellect and self-will over mind and body.
3There is music in heaven, because in music there is no self-will.
4In this case, the bondage of self-will is found to be absolute.
5There was neither self-will, perverseness, nor antagonism, in this; but paralysis instead.
6Those lines of self-will about the eyes and mouth surely meant something.
7But we always see too late the consequences of our proud self-will.
8How often do rashness, precipitation, and self-will accompany our determinations and movements.
9So perfect was his submission, that he seemed to have no self-will.
10As He had not, to do it was not faith, but self-will.
11It is our self-will, our aspirations, our dreams, that must be sacrificed.
12Do you think you hold a charter of freedom for your self-will?
13What strange blindness of stubborn self-will to such open evidence of power!
14How much so-called Christian worship glows with self-will or with partisan zeal!
15Holy Mother, may I not sin through a vain curiosity or self-will!
16The value of the death of Christ consisted in the surrender of self-will.
Translations for self-will