obstinacy

She is not a champion born, and bears few of a champion’s sins – arrogance, obstinacy, a sense of entitlement.

From Salon ● Jan. 19, 2025

Odenkirk was one of several perfectly cast actors in the episode, a force capable of matching Bernthal’s intensity and obstinacy.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2024

In a 17-page order, Judge Chushcoff said the employee “demonstrated obstinacy in her search” that led the State Patrol to move to discipline her; however, Loftis said the employee “subsequently left our employ.”

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024

Even more shocking were Rubiales and the Spanish federation’s steadfast attacks on Hermoso in the aftermath and their obstinacy that he had done nothing wrong, going so far as to call Hermoso a liar.

From Slate ● Aug. 30, 2023

Whenever I found myself up against my mother’s faith-based obstinacy, I would try, as respectfully as possible, to counter with an opposing point of view.

From "Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood" by Trevor Noah

The play itself is full of the standard details and recognitions pf marriage: its conversational small change and domestic small changes, its emotional freezing and boiling points, male obstinacies and female whims.

From Time Magazine Archive

She spoke softly, for she had already fully perceived that Mr. Critchlow must be managed with the tact which the capricious obstinacies of advanced age demanded.

From The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

Every one who has passed his apprenticeship has his own ideas and prejudices and obstinacies on those points.

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Paul Heyse

For some reason, she felt constrained to use one of her small obstinacies.

From Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown

I have my obstinacies as mulish as other people's.

From The Mountebank by William John Locke