Sentence examples for and stubborn in the from inspiring English sources

In temperament "molto melancolico, superstizioso e ostinato" ("very melancholic, superstitious, and stubborn"), in the words (1503) of the Venetian ambassador, Bayezid was interested in philosophical and cosmographical studies.

Mr. Crudup has transformed that face for each of his roles: coolly handsome in "Inventing the Abbotts," cocksure and determined in "Without Limits," naive and stubborn in the 1996 Broadway production of "Bus Stop," broodingly romantic in "The Hi-Lo Country".

The two presidents are clashing in Ukraine, where one is firm and stubborn in his positions and the other is flexible and open.

He was courageous, determined and stubborn in his fight to keep going through the trials and setbacks of operations and illness".

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"To stay straight and stubborn in your madness.

He has proven remarkably stubborn in the past.

Heavily blackened trunks stand stubborn in the burnt dust.

"A battling knock from Chris Read first time round and stubborn resistance from the unbeaten James Taylor in the second innings were the highlights for the home side, but they have it all to do on the final morning".

From this distance, the perseverance with Joel Tomkins in the second row ahead of Elliott Whitehead, who had such a fine season with the Catalans, and the continued absence of Zak Hardaker from the backline, seems equally strange, and stubborn – what was the point in naming Whitehead and Hardaker in the squad if they are not trusted to play in the matches?

Under pressure, Miliband could make snap decisions and was stubborn in his resolve – the attack on Murdoch; the peremptory sacking in November 2014 of the shadow attorney general, Emily Thornberry, for a single tweet that reeked of metropolitan hauteur.