Sentence examples for obstinate man from inspiring English sources

It's a study of politics in the social media age and a portrait of a passionate, obstinate man whose sexting habits are running his comeback off the road.

A final vote could come "in March or April at best", says one of those involved.Until then Mr Paksas may tough it out, despite a global cold-shouldering that would dismay a less obstinate man.

The dominant theme of the books seems to be that if you let this big, obstinate man study the details of a crime long enough, patterns will form and logic and human understanding does the rest.

The people who care for him see a driven, obstinate man who has constructed around himself a maze of deflections, but they see this behavior as evidence of vulnerability, rather than of malice or narcissism.

So Theon is fated to cut off everything that meant anything to him, emotionally and personally, in a bid for the approval of an obstinate man who won't listen to his useful advice and will never love him.

Catching the obstinate man's eye I promised him (against my better judgment) that I would "see (him) on the ground".

A STAND-OFF between two obstinate men close to retirement could determine the future of Deutsche Bahn (DB), Germany's state-owned railway company.

The truth is that battalion commanders, even if well meaning, have little to no influence over the thousands of obstinate men under them, in an incoherent chain of command, who are really loyal only to their militias.

He was an obstinate, manipulative man with strong partialities.

True, he is an obstinate old man, and the generals, who could arm-twist him, did so to get him talking at all, but gave him no map of how far to go.

In a startling 1909 painting, Kokoschka portrayed Moritz Hirsch, "an obstinate old man" who was the father of an actor-friend, wearing a hideous grin that bares a repulsive set of large false teeth.