Sentence examples for with obstinacy from inspiring English sources

There is a principle of opposition in our nature, which mans itself with obstinacy even against avowed truth, when it approaches our feelings in a harsh and insulting manner.

But Cook has carried on holding his ground, defending his captaincy with all the obstinacy with which he once did his wicket.

But he held to it with an obstinacy that was magnificent in its wrong headedness.

Why do they cling with perverse obstinacy to the obviously bad idea of theocracy?

With persistent obstinacy in Congress, the greatest opportunity for progress, the thinking goes, lies in foreign affairs.

When it disappears, he sets off to recover it with an obstinacy that impresses his boss and co-workers and even the schoolboys who regularly torment him.

Along with their obstinacy goes vanity; they cannot bear to be seen to be defeated, especially when this would suggest they were stupider than their opponent.

She insists on doing so, "with frivolous obstinacy," and as she regains her health she comes to resemble "a fresh, well-fed, harnessed filly whose bridle's been removed".

To write is to transform that inward gaze into words, to study the worlds into which we pass when we retire into ourselves, and to do so with patience, obstinacy, and joy.

Then a few more knells but violent and rapid as if the bell-ringer hoped to overcome his fatigue with sheer obstinacy, like a traveler on the last stretch of road before the peak.

But now that analysts at least have become reconciled to replacing the manifest dream by the meaning revealed by its interpretation, many of them have become guilty of falling into another confusion which they cling to with equal obstinacy.