Sentence examples for almost stubborn from inspiring English sources

We've just kind of trained ourselves in an almost stubborn way to keep going".

And his comments on Sunday, which sounded almost stubborn in their resoluteness, were likely to cause more anxiety within the party.

That may be why there is something both horrific and heroic in Dame Judi as she charts the title character's simply closing down, her vivacity and keen wit submerged beneath an almost stubborn opacity.

Although she could write movingly about women's experiences (especially in The Hour of the Star), her almost stubborn unworldliness otherwise gives the lie to the awful old cliché that women are somehow deficient in considering the abstract, and shows that women are as unrestricted in subject matter as men.

The choice of photograph is almost stubborn in its insistence that Gates be remembered for his charitable endeavors rather than his work at Microsoft.

It's almost stubborn in its insistence on being exclusive and unique it's only available in print runs of 1,000 copies, and rather than accepting submissions it assigns "homework" to contributors.

At the other end, Chris Tavaré played one of his most stubborn, almost static, most invaluable innings.

My basic technique works like this: Cook the rice as you would pasta, in abundant salted water, tasting as you go; the cooking time will range from around 15 minutes for white rice to as long as 45 minutes for the most stubborn brown varieties (almost all will be done in 30 minutes or so).

With two rounds of treatment, almost all had vanished, and the most stubborn were barely visible.

Battling the federal government on almost any issue is a crowd-pleasing tactic in Texas, the most stubborn and independent-minded state in the union.

Talk about stubborn!