obdurately

Example Sentences

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Plenty expected him to fade away, but he proved to be obdurately unyielding.

From BBC • Jul. 13, 2025

Rather, it wanted to be obdurately local, fixing the problems created by the commercial temper of Jakarta’s art scene: the pressures to sell work, the tedium of the galleries, the deference toward Western trends.

From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022

When Williams played the first Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival in 1978, she obdurately declared, “I’m very feminine but I think like a man.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 1, 2020

And he obdurately stood in the way of necessary and welcome societal change long after it was otherwise the universal norm.

From Washington Post • Oct. 18, 2019

Despite the defense’s successes in showing the shoddiness of the government’s case, the state was obdurately persistent.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela