Somehow they weren't clear enough, and the path remained obdurately in place.

He tried again and again, but my pupils remained obdurately small.

Cary tried to shake my resolution, but I was obdurately silent.

But still she held Mr. Bellingham's arm, obdurately refusing to dance.

Ukraine's president Viktor Yanukovych has so far obdurately refused to bow to EU pressure.

For the rest of the drive he sat obdurately silent.

The convention had obdurately refused, week after week, to pass the ordinance of secession.

Her own car, meanwhile, obdurately reposed in its garage.

The peddler pressed his goods, Mrs. Sharpe obdurately declined.

He said obdurately, Your paternalistic guidance, given an uncontrolled competitive system, doesn't always work out.

This third part is a much less obdurately resisting factor: it often ends by giving way.

But Azazel persisted obdurately in his sin of leading mankind astray by means of sensual allurements.

He cast a swift glance and stopped obdurately.

She stressed "I'll decide" obdurately but she had in principle made up her mind.

To go herself would be futile, when he had so obdurately shut his door against her.

Mrs. Groome alone had set her face obdurately against any change in the personnel of the eighties.