obstinacy

Brutal humor and obstinacy bind these malcontents together for almost 15 years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2025

Her obstinacy represents the larger unwillingness of those in power to listen to the public, digging their heels in rather than trying to maintain an air of understanding.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2025

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

He offered him his friendship, invited him to bathe in champagne, tried to make him understand that the females of his family had insides made of flint, but he could not weaken his obstinacy.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

This transfer was finally made, for Lucy had no small obstinacies and was glad to please her husband.

From Sir Tom by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Her deep responses spoke a faith and surety that swallowed for the moment all her little sillinesses and obstinacies.

From In The Valley Of The Shadow by Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

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

From Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown

You know there are obstinacies in the world as well as mortalities, and thereto appertaining.

From The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) by Sir Frederic G. (Frederic George) Kenyon