obdurate
Example Sentences
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But the past is obdurate; it remains as it was.
From Washington Post
The opening number, “Oh Freedom,” begins as an a cappella spiritual before the piano enters with obdurate clusters of bass notes.
From New York Times
Adeem seemed less sanguine about the prospect of moving beyond country’s margins, of infiltrating a genre and lifestyle chained to obdurate mores.
From New York Times
Indeed, Messi thought that was his team’s problem as Argentina struggled to find a way through Mexico’s obdurate defense in the first hour of the match.
From Seattle Times
Among physicists, those studying elusive particles called neutrinos may set the standard for dogged determination—or obdurate stubbornness.
From Science Magazine
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