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 "
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 .
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 !
16 The value of the death of Christ consisted in the surrender of self - will .
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