Sentence examples for obdurate man from inspiring English sources

Her photograph shows an aged and obdurate man with a tinge of uncertainty in his face.

In a system that works on compromise and backroom deals, Mr Ganji is an oddity: a courageous and obdurate man willing to lay down his life on a matter of principle.

"Glory Denied" reveals Thompson as a touchingly obtuse stiff-necked obdurate man over whom neither the Viet Cong nor the U.S. Army nor his family could prevail.

He spoke of the party's pride in Mr Kohl, respected worldwide as both Germany's unifier and Europe's champion, while privately urging the obdurate old man to name his anonymous donors.

The system is not an obdurate one-man rule, but a balancing of power groups, including the military, government and internal security, all have different interests and policies.

He's not a wistful old man; he's tense and obdurate even in the presence of pleasant or affirming words.

In his film debut, the silver-haired Siberian baritone Dmitri Hvoro stovsky, 37, stars as both the obdurate libertine of legend and his grumbling man Friday.

This was a man who silently broadcast the obdurate desire to have what all artists say they want, which is to be remembered for their work.

Man United managed to break down an obdurate Birmingham on the opening day of the season, despite the bus-parking, etc.

Like "Blind Date," "The One-Armed Man" pits battalions of words against one person's obdurate silence.

I have considerable sympathy for any writer who had to ask Bob Gibson some sharp, news-producing questions two or three times a week over the span of a decade or more, but wanting Gibson with a sunny, less obdurate temperament would be to want him a less difficult, less dangerous man on the mound — not quite a Bob Gibson, not quite a great pitcher.