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Meanings of sheer obstinacy in anglès

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Usage of sheer obstinacy in anglès
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Remember there is a point at which faithfulness may degenerate into sheer obstinacy.
A True Friend: A Novel
2
Out of sheer obstinacy he preferred to starve his family.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
3
He'd dig in his heels from sheer obstinacy, and the conversation would get nowhere.
Dead beat
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He could let the Conference drag on an endless length by the exercise of sheer obstinacy.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
5
It is sheer obstinacy on your part that you will not accept such a good offer.
Vera Nevill / Or, Poor Wisdom's Chance
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It was sheer obstinacy and empty pride that drove him, and he received the lesson he deserved.
Captain Blood
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As far as the eye of man could see, nothing was wrong with the thing but sheer obstinacy.
Blue Aloes: Stories of South Africa
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And through sheer obstinacy too!
The Grim Smile of the Five Towns
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Partly through sheer obstinacy.
Bones to Ashes
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About that, too, she cares so little, that, out of sheer obstinacy, I become good-humored again, and then she smiles.
Hyperion
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My father believed that it was sheer obstinacy and indolence on my part, so that I might spend my days in idleness.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
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For some reason ONE suspects the other of treason; they don't come to an explanation through pride, and quarrel and part from sheer obstinacy.
A Passion in the Desert
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I may not give way gracefully to such an opponent as Jervaise, but I do not stupidly persist in a personal opinion through sheer obstinacy.
The Jervaise Comedy
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"It wasn't pluck-itwas sheer obstinacy-I'mrather ashamed of it," said Rilla, kicking joyously.
Rilla of Ingleside
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"Rather say sheer obstinacy," said he sternly.
Beulah
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'This is sheer obstinacy.
A Prince of Sinners
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