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