His haste, his lack of adaptability, and his obstinacy lost him much more than did his visionary approach and his boldness.
Their secrets are shameful, tawdry, the result of laziness or obstinacy or stupidity or too much to drink.
It wasn't so much an expression of disbelief in Hatto's existence as it was obstinacy from live-performance purists, who argue that recordings are an unreliable measure of any musician's true qualities, given the manipulations permitted by studio technology.
Yet by diagnosing the onset of this lightness of being Milosz effectively halted it for his readers, and much of his staying power as a poet will continue to reside in his exemplary obstinacy, his refusal to underprize the thickness of the actual and the sovereign value that can inhere in what we choose to remember.
A one-man show almost from day of its birth on 15 November 1983, the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus came into being thanks to the sheer obstinacy, determination and chutzpah of Denktash, a British-trained barrister who prided himself as much on his in-depth knowledge of the "Cyprus problem" as his ability to push the parameters of international law.
Anti-Semitism, a close cousin, requires real Jews for scapegoating, Nirenberg contends, but Anti-Judaism is a much broader pathology: wielded by Christians, Muslims, artists, philosophers, political theorists — and occasionally by Jews themselves — to describe any kind of obstinacy, superstition, literalism and deviancy that is worthy of nothing less than contempt and annihilation.
Hatred, vengefulness, obstinacy.
Such obstinacy made him enemies.
