obstinate

Example Sentences

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Her critical “confidence . . . is thrillingly anachronistic: obstinate, sure, but warming, too.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025

While the central meaning of all this has yet to be revealed, Seehorn’s performance of Carol’s obstinate loneliness is wrenchingly genuine to anyone who has ever felt alone in a sea of smiling strangers.

From Salon • Dec. 17, 2025

But he added, he is "a pretty obstinate person".

From BBC • Apr. 14, 2024

Maybe she was too obstinate or self-destructive; maybe her vision was a tad too strange for middle-of-the-road record-buyers in the early ’70s.

From New York Times • Apr. 12, 2024

He only called me E’lir when he thought I was being especially willfully obstinate.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss