Sentence examples for was obstinacy from inspiring English sources

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.

Harrison Birtwistle's "Betty Freeman -- Her Tango" was a piece designed for Mitsuko Uchida to perform after her immensely strong but light, fleet-fingered and colorful performance of Bartok's First Piano Concerto, and here the qualities in play, oddly and smilingly, were obstinacy and grace.

One way they won was through obstinacy.

It was "sartorial obstinacy," she said.

Treatment failure is found to be related to deep structure involvement or inappropriate therapies, such as corticosteroid use. 1, 5 What confused us was the obstinacy of our patient's localized infection with no significant improvement after 1 month of treatment with combined antibiotics, which the isolated strain were proven to be susceptible to by subsequent drug susceptibility tests.

More damaging to progress, according to Russian officials, has been the obstinacy of Abkhaz leaders.

Chief among these is the obstinacy of local planning boards, who without thinking oppose all new development and whose inability to understand property finance leads to highly inefficient tendering processes.

The one difference in Mississippi has been the obstinacy of state officials to acknowledge the problem.

At times, Mr. Gonzalez's obstinacy was disruptive.

"But what I inherited was a terrierlike obstinacy".

And folly it was, McClellan's obstinacy and lack of battlefield success notwithstanding.