recalcitrancy

Example Sentences

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Under this extreme recalcitrancy lies trouble of a kind that is manufactured only in Ireland.

From Time Magazine Archive

But he, bitter against the educational recalcitrancy of England, wanted to make a point against the "hard-dying social stigma which attaches to being in trade" in England.

From Time Magazine Archive

And then he went on in a passionate and eager voice to explain all he had thought of during the day and still further defend his recalcitrancy.

From The Martian by Du Maurier, George

But the landlady read recalcitrancy in the girl's face, and knowing some things which Henrietta did not know, and being at no time one to brook opposition, she took the girl the wrong way.

From Starvecrow Farm by Weyman, Stanley J.

To the importance of mind-cure the medical and clerical professions in the United States are beginning, though with much recalcitrancy and protesting, to open their eyes.

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William