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Meanings of stubbornness in English
Resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires.
Synonyms
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
He did not like this mulishness, this almost ostentatious look of obduracy.
2
And Lanyard shrugged appreciation of the futility of more contention against such mulishness.
3
The acute form of this mulishness is writer's block.
4
I shall not tell the name of the book (mere mulishness!)
5
Separate honor from mulishness if you can.
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.
Usage of stubbornness in English
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.
6
The evils which pure stubbornness brings in its train are perfectly clear.
7
Sale will now finish bottom, but their stubbornness may yet prove influential.
8
It was better to blame outside provocateurs than the government's own stubbornness.
9
With the stubbornness of despair, he had taken her in his arms.
10
I sense more here than simple stubbornness, more even than sinful obstinacy.
11
On week days she would toil with the stubbornness of an animal.
12
Of the two, you love yourself the more-yourpride and your stubbornness.
13
Still Eve remained silent, and in his heart Acour cursed her stubbornness.
14
But something about her dignity and pride and stubbornness touched him deeply.
15
This stubbornness is as Dutch as coffee shops and low-quality techno music.
16
Vehemently anti-violence, Mr Mallon is also renowned for his stubbornness and honesty.
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