Use "obstinacy" in a sentence

1. angry at his wife’s obstinacy

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2. with these there were some of the citizens who took courage, and would not submit to his obstinacy, and his intention of carrying out

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3. us, and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us, when we might live unmolested by the king? 26 But nothing of this kind did the

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4. 22 Along with these there were some of the citizens who took courage and would not submit to his obstinacy and his intention of carrying out his purpose

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5. 25 How has such angry zeal taken root in us and such fatal obstinacy approved itself to us when we might live unmolested by the king? 26 But nothing of this kind did the young men say or think when about to be tortured

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6. I have prayed so many times to the Immaculate Virgin for the patience and fortitude to accept such treatment without complaint or obstinacy

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7. On account of this obstinacy of theirs understanding departed from them and foolish senselessness entered into them

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8. The crowd, went wild to the cries and the jumps of a samba whose drums were heard to the edge of the obstinacy, the audience flocked, as a single body, in the center of the track

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9. “Your obstinacy is noted and will be dealt with by the Drystyx Monks accordingly

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10. Yasala made no verbal protest, nor did she offer any resistance, as Valeria carried out the first part of her threat with a fury that her captive's obstinacy only sharpened

11. One Au-gust afternoon, overcome by the unbearable weight of her own obstinacy, Amaranta locked herself in her bedroom to weep over her solitude unto death after giving her final answer to her tenacious suitor:

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12. ” He offered him his friend-ship, invited him to bathe in champagne, tried to make him understand that the females of his family had insides made of flint, but he could not weaken his obstinacy

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13. an adamant defence in hopes of persuading Feltus to demand an autopsy, but his attempts had been futile given the detective’s obstinacy over protecting what would be the wishes of the boy’s family

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14. Sensing her obstinacy, he leaned back in the comfortable leather

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15. reply in response to his obstinacy, “women are more likely to ask

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16. that his obstinacy was a hurdle to their much bigger plans and large

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17. Carson City, and seemed to focus more heavily on his age and obstinacy

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18. His obstinacy delayed the aircraft coming into service and led to its misuse when it finally did reach operational status

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19. He admired its huge strength, and its obstinacy in

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20. Stung to the quick by the obstinacy of the idolaters, and pleased with Muhammad’s perseverance that was sustained by Khadijah’s faith in him, ‘the God’ gave him hope

21. Yet, the women don’t seem to be complaining either, well if they don’t comply, how they could ever be believers? Though the moulvi imposed religious obligation to numerically strengthen Islam is at odds with the welfare of the umma itself, for the religiously blinded Musalmans, the deprivation that large families bring to their members is not something to lose sleep about! After all, for the believing souls, the life ‘here’ is of no avail and the purpose of being born a Musalman is to hope for the ‘hereafter’, isn’t it? Thus, as the religious bigotry of the Indian Musalmans besides hurting their standard of living is upsetting the Indian demographic order, the Hindu patience with the Muslim obstinacy is seemingly running out as can be seen from Narendra Modi’s, ham paanch, hamara pachhis – We’re five and ours twenty-five – taunt

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22. recovered, she blinked to keep the tears from coursing down her face, but the former obstinacy

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23. He had, said the postmistress, grown quite angry and forgotten the greater and by far the better part of his manners when she asked him how he could stand there and say such things after all the years he had attended Sunday-school and if he were not afraid the earth would open and swallow him up, and he had stuck to it with an obstinacy that had at length convinced her that only one uncle and niece were at Baker's, and their name was Neumann

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24. It was a shock to him to realise that her obstinacy, the most obstinate obstinacy he had ever met, might be going to upset his plans

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25. Most religious “people” usually assume that in order to cognize God they must definitely overcome all earthly passions and some of them do it so passionately that they don’t notice that in the course of time THIS very feature of their character, thinking and feeling turns into a real passion! My advice is: there is no use to stoically, and sometimes tragically, try to overcome some of your passions (lower Desires), exerting every effort not in practicing spirituality, but only in strengthening lower Aspects of ARGLLAAMUNI — obstinacy, silly physical endurance, recklessness, peevishness, impudence; try just to ACCEPT them, then UNDERSTAND, and after this start to gradually CHANGE them, turning the difficult process of getting rid of something into a pleasant enjoyment of something (for example, of the very process of creativity, conscious correction of yourself according to the highest Formo-Image), because your resistance only strengthens that of which you want to get rid

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26. fraud is that when Josephus accounts for the obstinacy of

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27. After bursting open a door of idiotic obstinacy with a weak rattle in its throat, you fell into Tellson's down two steps, and came to your senses in a miserable little shop, with two little counters, where the oldest of men made your cheque shake as if the wind rustled it, while they examined the signature by the dingiest of windows, which were always under a shower-bath of mud from Fleet-street, and which were made the dingier by their own iron bars proper, and the heavy shadow of Temple Bar

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28. Those whom I have inspired with love by letting them see me, I have by words undeceived, and if their longings live on hope--and I have given none to Chrysostom or to any other--it cannot justly be said that the death of any is my doing, for it was rather his own obstinacy than my cruelty that killed him; and if it be made a charge against me that his wishes were honourable, and that therefore I was bound to yield to them, I answer that when on this very spot where now his grave is made he declared to me his purity of purpose, I told him that mine was to live in perpetual solitude, and that the earth alone should enjoy the fruits of my retirement and the spoils of my beauty; and if, after this open avowal, he chose to persist against hope and steer against the wind, what wonder is it that he should sink in the depths of his infatuation? If I had encouraged him, I should be false; if I had gratified him, I should have acted against my own better resolution and purpose

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29. well, if the boy held his tongue because he promised, and not from obstinacy, I'll forgive him

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30. For Demi inherited a trifle of his sire's firmness of character, we won't call it obstinacy, and when he made up his little to have or to do anything, all the king's horses and all the king's men could not change that pertinacious little mind

31. Ah! you will find many prejudices to combat, Monsieur Bovary, much obstinacy of routine, with which all the efforts of your science will daily come into collision; for people still have recourse to novenas, to relics, to the priest, rather than come straight to the doctor or the chemist

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32. And Homais retired, declaring that he could not understand this obstinacy, this blindness in refusing the benefactions of science

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33. "All these mishaps have befallen thee, hardhearted knight, for the sin of thy insensibility and obstinacy; and God grant thy squire Sancho may forget to whip himself, so that that dearly beloved Dulcinea of thine may never be released from her

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34. any reason for saying that he used violence, after a few more efforts, he retired, cursing my obstinacy, to bed

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35. "Wonderful people they are," he repeated from time to time, without entering into particulars, but with many nods of sagacious obstinacy

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36. "Well may you wonder, Marianne," replied her brother, "at the obstinacy which could resist such arguments as these

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37. I felt provoked by her obstinacy, but to excuse her to myself as far as I could, I

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38. But the uproar passed away in twenty minutes, leaving us all unharmed; excepting Cathy, who got thoroughly drenched for her obstinacy in refusing to take shelter, and standing bonnetless and shawl-less to catch as much water as she could with her hair and clothes

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39. "What is now so freely accorded to approved courage, may be refused to useless obstinacy

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40. Whitewash on the forehead hardens the brain into a state of obstinacy perhaps

41. Anyhow, with whitewash from the wall on my forehead, my obstinacy was adamantine

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42. The combat endured only for an instant, hand to hand, and then the assailed yielded ground rapidly, until they reached the opposite margin of the thicket, where they clung to the cover, with the sort of obstinacy that is so often witnessed in hunted brutes

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43. joined by others, until a long line of swarthy figures was to be seen clinging to the cover with the obstinacy of desperation

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44. It is I who lose my cause, and it is ill-luck, obstinacy, and folly which have caused it to be decided against me

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45. He looked at her, trying to read her face, and saw only a sulky obstinacy there

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46. His obstinacy came, paradoxically, from a kind of timidity

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47. You brought defeat on yourself by your greed and obstinacy

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48. “He has authorized me to tell you that, in the light of your obstinacy, he will not force you to marry a man you loathe

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49. ‘For you it’s a matter of obstinacy,’ she said, watching him intently and suddenly finding the right word for that expression that irritated her, ‘simply obstinacy

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50. He asked for supper, and began telling her about the races; but in his tone, in his eyes, which became more and more cold, she saw that he did not forgive her for her victory, that the feeling of obstinacy with which she had been struggling had asserted itself again in him

51. And now he was dead because of her obstinacy

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52. “Mine wore out,” he went on, “against Ashley Wilkes and your insane obstinacy that

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53. She looked at him with slanting eyes that burned with a desperate obstinacy and the sudden hard line of jaw that sprang out through her soft cheek was Gerald’s jaw

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54. He would never have contradicted her, and when a woman is not contradicted, she has no motive for obstinacy in her absurdities

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55. "She has obstinacy and pride enough to serve instead of love, now

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56. Rosamond, examining some muslin-work, listened in silence, and at the end gave a certain turn of her graceful neck, of which only long experience could teach you that it meant perfect obstinacy

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57. "There's such an odd mixture of obstinacy and changeableness in Brooke

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58. Rosamond had that victorious obstinacy which never wastes its energy in impetuous resistance

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59. But he not only dreaded the effect of such extremities on their mutual life—he had a growing dread of Rosamond's quiet elusive obstinacy, which would not allow any assertion of power to be final; and again, she had touched him in a spot of keenest feeling by implying that she had been deluded with a false vision of happiness in marrying him

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60. obstinacy, this blindness in refusing the benefactions of science

61. watching his daughter's movements, hesitating, perhaps, between the course to which the obstinacy of his character impelled him and his natural desire to embrace his child

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62. I felt at once like a Prisoner of the Inquisition, or a Felon being put to the Peine Forte et Dure, for e’en as my Pains came in Waves, this other Force of cold Metal insinuated itself into my very Bowels, jabbing and twisting; ’twas groping, it seem’d, for the Head of the Babe, that refus’d, in its Obstinacy, to turn

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63. seems like pure obstinacy

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64. my poor, sweet darling,’ she said to her mother, who conscious that they had been on the brink of a rupture gazed at her son with terror, but in the obstinacy and excitement of the conflict could not and would not give way

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65. His obstinacy was bruited about the country-side, and caused great consternation

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66. The one who appeared to be their leader turned round and pointed hastily with his right hand in the direction which Jean Valjean had taken; another seemed to indicate the contrary direction with considerable obstinacy

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67. The most curious were baffled by her silence and the most tenacious by her obstinacy

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68. The obstinacy of antiquated institutions in perpetuating themselves resembles the stubbornness of the rancid perfume which should claim our hair, the pretensions of the spoiled fish which should persist in being eaten, the persecution of the child's garment which should insist on clothing the man, the tenderness of corpses which should return to embrace the living

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69. Your obstinacy puts more than your own soul at risk

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70. The old man’s obstinacy seemed natural to them, not because, as it was too easy to say, old age had made him less visionary than he had always been, but because renouncing the monopoly must have seemed to him like throwing away the victories of a historic battle that he and his brothers had waged unaided, back in heroic times, against powerful adversaries from all over the world

71. To be called into notice in such a manner, to hear that it was but the prelude to something so infinitely worse, to be told that she must do what was so impossible as to act; and then to have the charge of obstinacy and ingratitude follow it, enforced with such a hint at the dependence of her situation, had been too distressing at the time to make the remembrance when she was alone much less so, especially with the superadded dread of what the morrow might produce in continuation of the subject

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72. Thus it is known that a cross with a bull-dog has affected for many generations the courage and obstinacy of greyhounds; and a cross with a greyhound has given to a whole family of shepherd-dogs a tendency to hunt hares

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73. "Æneas Sylvius," say they, "after giving a very circumstantial account of one contested with great obstinacy by a great and small species on the trunk of a pear tree," adds that "this action was fought in the pontificate of Eugenius the Fourth, in the presence of Nicholas Pistoriensis, an eminent lawyer, who related the whole history of the battle with the greatest fidelity

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74. But one cannot be too much on his guard in such a case, lest his action be biased by obstinacy or an undue regard for the opinions of men

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75. 'The prettiest are always further!' she said at last, with a sigh at the obstinacy of the rushes in growing so far off, as, with flushed cheeks and dripping hair and hands, she scrambled back into her place, and began to arrange her new-found treasures

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76. The anatomical fact of this labyrinth is indisputable; and that the supposition founded upon it is reasonable and true, seems the more cogent to me, when I consider the otherwise inexplicable obstinacy of that leviathan in HAVING HIS SPOUTINGS OUT, as the fishermen phrase it

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77. He began by showing obstinacy

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78. Knowing the obstinacy of my retainer, I resolved to meet him with sincerity and coaxing

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79. " No doubt they too have heard of obstinacy and perseverance, but to attain my object what I need is not these German ' vaters^ ' obstinacy or these ' vaters^ ' perseverance

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80. The first, that obstinacy in saving even the smallest coin will produce enormous result