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There is something awful in the obstinacy of the assaults upon us.
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The general's patience was gradually vanishing in the face of such obstinacy.
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That, and a good portion of obstinacy, he thought with a smile.
4
Wherever they passed, there did the fight augment in obstinacy and fury.
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The girl comprehended without hearing, and shook her head in sullen obstinacy.
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The natural stubbornness on which he had counted hardened in her face.
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Don't think I am not aware of the source of your stubbornness.
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Some call this principle, a kind of stubbornness the hard left admire.
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I've got a bit of faith in the stubbornness of human nature.
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But he doesn't say this; he has a stubbornness to match hers.
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And Jennie's cocky obstinance indicated she was aware of it.
2
Ferrell's Lars is a character whose obstinance makes it hard to root for him.
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But the urgency outside has only met a wall of politics and obstinance inside the convention centre.
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Her eyes were glittery with renewed obstinance.
Usage of mulishness in English
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He did not like this mulishness, this almost ostentatious look of obduracy.
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And Lanyard shrugged appreciation of the futility of more contention against such mulishness.
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The acute form of this mulishness is writer's block.
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I shall not tell the name of the book (mere mulishness!)
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Separate honor from mulishness if you can.
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I'd bet it gets them both out of a lot of trouble their mulishness gets them into.'
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People of plainer speech said it was "mulishness."
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If this is a day of destiny, no stupid mulishness of mine shall thwart the happy combination of the stars.
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Pilate knew that he had prostituted his office in condemning Jesus, and he revenged himself for weak compliance by ill-timed mulishness.
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A sort of passive mulishness it was, impervious to argument, immovable under the most sympathetic pressure, which particularly tried the Dabney patience.
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I cried, thoroughly aroused by his mulishness, do you deliberately choose to sacrifice the life of this lady to your bull-headed fanaticism?
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But, most unfortunately, it is in the very best things of life that the true mulishness of the obstinate man most comes out.
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Having found himself out, unless his mulishness is almost past sanity, he begins to reject his habit of resistance of his own accord.
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Stephanie's face fell, and Shelton folded his arms across his chest and sat back from the table, his own expression a model of mulishness.
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"Humph," half laughed the lawyer, though with obvious disgust at the mulishness in Peter's face and voice.
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"You'd see the whole-thewhole scheme come to nothing, would you?"-hescolded at her-"ratherthan abate a jot of your confounded mulishness."