pertinacity

Example Sentences

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In many ways, he was like a north star, his effervescent personality and endearing pertinacity emitting a guiding light through the sport’s most transitional times.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 4, 2021

Any avant-gardist of this pertinacity should continue to provoke debate.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2017

Barnes’s Shostakovich is less emotionally violent, more lightly sarcastic: “Being a coward required pertinacity, persistence, a refusal to change—which made it, in a way, a kind of courage.”

From The New Yorker • May 26, 2016

It is only the pertinacity of the mind/body dichotomy that sustains the notion that a sufficient biological account of the brain would be reductionist in the negative sense.

From The Guardian • Jun. 4, 2010

“Negro” families of relative position and privilege, as mine was, inculcated the values of education, citizenship, and, as one said back then, breeding with a pertinacity that was as anxious as it was authentic.

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times