Sentence examples for rather obdurate from inspiring English sources

She is a petite, impeccably groomed and rather obdurate person with whom I had the following conversation: Aparaks: "We do sex changes, but we are not going to speak about that.

A right-hand opening batsman, Fingleton was noted primarily for his obdurate defense rather than for his strokeplay.

If he can help communicate the immutability of natural laws to America's almost equally obdurate politicians, then on top, rather than on tap, is where he deserves to be.

Once Mr. Gonzalez comes to the United States -- it would be preferable if he went to Miami rather than to Washington -- only the most obdurate foes of Mr. Castro can argue that Elian should not be reunited with him.

This is not to say that any of us was obdurate or inflexible about our inclinations, but rather that it was good for all three of us to know what our inclinations were, so as to allow for them, in ourselves and one another, as we continued to talk and talk and talk about the books.

Obdurate opener Michael Carberry looked more a Test veteran rather than a second-gamer until Johnson came around the wicket and took just three balls to pinpoint the glaring weak point in his defences.

Hadden has turned Scotland from easy-beats to obdurate opposition but the next step, asserting themselves with, rather than without, the ball, is proving more challenging.

But a more profound objection relates to Thornhill's obdurate belief that IQ is a true measure of "crystallised general intelligence" rather than just a measure of ability to perform in IQ tests.

Instead she provided me with an inspiriting mystery: the obdurate opacity of other beings.

On Friday the three musicians played that hourlong obdurate monument to the riff with Jason Roeder, the drummer from the band Neurosis, rather than their original drummer, Chris Hakius.

The insurgents remain obdurate.