Sentence examples for an obstinacy from inspiring English sources

But he held to it with an obstinacy that was magnificent in its wrong headedness.

Although he had a gift for leadership, he lacked sympathy for others and had an obstinacy that led to inflexibility.

When it disappears, he sets off to recover it with an obstinacy that impresses his boss and co-workers and even the schoolboys who regularly torment him.

Her father tried everything he could to keep her off the stage, but, through an obstinacy like his own, she admits in her memoirs, she wore him down to the point that he rented a hall for her début.

And again, with an obstinacy that is all the more beautiful for being hopeless, he affirms the humanist ideal of a world united by its differences: What constitutes the character of a nation — I believe — is the character of many individual human beings; every national character is, in essence, simply human nature.

It is a realm in which fatalism is a vice, obstinacy a virtue.

There was an appealing obstinacy to Icona Pop's jubilation in these songs, an unapologetic quality that connected the music to Cyrus' hit "We Can't Stop".

He was no doubt in his private character brave and likeable; but those who knew him well were alarmed by an irrational obstinacy and self-will strangely streaked with weak and vacillating purposes.

Continuing such treatment with no hope of cure or benefit would equate to an unreasonable obstinacy, especially for patients who are no longer able to express their wishes.

To refuse that, to choose compassion and consolation, requires a measure of obstinacy, a muscular and brutish willfulness that is also an authentic kind of grace.

"But what I inherited was a terrierlike obstinacy".