Use "obstinately" in a sentence

1. He describes it as a frame of mind “in which nothing definite is thought, planned, striven for, desired, or expected, which aims in no particular direction and yet knows itself capable alike of the possible and the impossible, so unswerving is its power…” [183] The author quotes his teacher as saying, “The right art is purposeless, aimless! The more obstinately you try to learn how to shoot the arrow for the sake of hitting the goal, the less you will succeed in the one and the further the other will recede

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2. How obstinately the city of Paris, upon that occasion, defended itself, what a dreadful famine it supported, rather than submit to the best, and afterwards the most beloved of all the French kings, is well known

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3. Our colonies, unless they can be induced to consent to a union, are very likely to defend themselves, against the best of all mother countries, as obstinately as the city of Paris did against one of the best of kings

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4. "As to puss, who obstinately refused to take a hint which drove her out

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5. Then he tried other things, but the box obstinately refused to open

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6. but he was obstinately positive for his efforts

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7. “No,” she retorted quickly and obstinately

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8. For the military obstinately clung to the war that they had started and placed their last hopes on a pitched battle in defence of their homeland

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9. “The hell I’m not,” Wickland replied obstinately

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10. But still, that man must be blind or obstinately prejudiced, who does not see an immense change for the better, both as regards duty to God and duty to our neighbours throughout the country, in the last half century

11. Bequen ushered Trid and Max out, but Andrei stood obstinately by

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12. greater then man’s foolishness to cling obstinately to narrow-

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13. celestial beings seated at the portals of these forts obstinately keep the

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14. ” I had obstinately told my mother

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15. To the case of such man the Noble Verse refers, God says: {And though We had mercy on them and removed the distress which is on them, still they would obstinately persist in their transgression, wandering blindly

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16. Tadeo shook his head obstinately

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17. obstinately as he held out his hand for Anne, but when he glanced at the corner where he had

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18. Roth grinned obstinately at her

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19. obstinately asked the latter time and she crossed her arms, staring at him with an unbelievable

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20. She is also obstinately opposed to growing up and becoming a woman capable of loving a man, but she is not very aware of this

21. I’m not a freak, he thought obstinately

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22. Perhaps if your letters lately had been different I would not so obstinately refuse to see you, but I have a wretched feeling that my poor soul is going to be pruned again, pruned of its last, most pleasant growth, and you are on the road to saying and doing things we shall both be forever sorry for

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23. And besides, never was a woman so obstinately determined as I was to do my duty

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24. And she fell to thinking of another of her adorers--she hadn't been able to endure him for long, this one, because the moment he left off talking love she couldn't understand a word he said,--who used obstinately to assert that the past is really as present as the present, and that if only she were to approach it from the proper angle she would find she was still doing everything she had ever done; still, she supposed the tiresome man would have insisted, holding those flowers, still, awful thought, eating those plovers' eggs, and poor Jim still going through the dismal process of all but dying

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25. In the old days she had obstinately refused to let him marry her, but this, though he well remembered it, cut no ice with him now, because those days weren't these days, and a woman will do things at fifty which she wouldn't at thirty, and often be jolly glad to

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26. Love it continuously, generously, if needs be obstinately; smite its hardness, as once a rock was smitten, with the rod of generosity

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27. However, many of these inexplicable “errors” and blatant “inaccuracies” are just natural results of narrowly-specific force interrelations of those Nonquantum or Nonwave dynamics, the existence of which you so obstinately don’t want to recognize, but which manifest in our diapason of dimensions in spite of any your strict negations

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28. The general philological argument to which attention has been now drawn, I believe, compels the conclusion that the New Testament doctrine on the future punishment of obstinately impenitent men is that they shall be 'blotted out’ and finally perish under inflictions corresponding with their sins

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29. The bright current of the divine promises to penitent men is not more visible to the eye, than the fiery stream of curses which rolls its awful tide into the abyss of perdition, carrying upon its waves all obstinately rebellious beings whether diabolical or human

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30. He did not attempt to move, but stared obstinately at the flower

31. He stayed obstinately at that thought

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32. Sonia looked obstinately at the ground and would not answer

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33. He always took her hand as though with repugnance, always seemed vexed to meet her and was sometimes obstinately silent throughout her visit

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34. "As far as I have been able to observe," replied Jemima, "prejudices, caught up by chance, are obstinately maintained by the poor, to the exclusion of

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35. I was obstinately silent

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36. I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character and acting on the false impressions she cherished

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37. I attempted to persuade him of the naughtiness of showing reluctance to meet his father; still he obstinately resisted any progress towards dressing, and I had to call for my master's assistance in coaxing him out of bed

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38. Linton and his daughter would frequently walk out among the reapers; at the carrying of the last sheaves, they stayed till dusk, and the evening happening to be chill and damp, my master caught a bad cold, that settled obstinately on his lungs, and confined him indoors throughout the whole of the winter, nearly without intermission

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39. Beyond the river he saw a goods train winding out of Kingsbridge Station, like a worm with a fiery head winding through the darkness, obstinately and laboriously

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40. Jaggers, not looking at her, but obstinately looking at the

41. Another salver passed, loaded like the preceding ones; she saw Albert attempt to persuade the count, but he obstinately refused

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42. Jaggers being highly dictatorial, and Wemmick obstinately justifying himself whenever there was the smallest point in abeyance for a moment

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43. But his eyes scarcely quitted the box between the columns, which remained obstinately closed during the whole of the first act

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44. Then he saw beneath a thick clump of linden-trees, which were nearly divested of foliage, Madame de Villefort sitting with a book in her hand, the perusal of which she frequently interrupted to smile upon her son, or to throw back his elastic ball, which he obstinately threw from the drawing-room into the garden

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45. Though Anna had obstinately and with exasperation contradicted Vronsky when he told her their position was impossible, at the bottom of her heart she regarded her own position as false and dishonorable, and she longed with her whole soul to change it

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46. When admonished sternly not to trifle he repeated his entreaties and protestations of loyalty and innocence again in German, obstinately, because he was not aware in what language he was speaking

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47. "I can say what is true," the doctor insisted, obstinately

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48. ‘I am very sorry that you don’t care to understand,’ he interrupted, obstinately anxious to give utterance to his thought

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49. The little girl sitting at the table was obstinately and violently battering on it with a cork, and staring aimlessly at her mother with her pitchblack eyes

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50. What am I about? To me individually, to my heart has been revealed a knowledge beyond all doubt, and unattainable by reason, and here I am obstinately trying to express that knowledge

51. Both she and Frank would willingly have given, without any charge, the finest mahogany and carved rosewood in the store, but the Wilkeses obstinately refused

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52. The very tones of his voice called up other days as nothing else could, made her heart Scarlett set her mouth obstinately

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53. Tess's feminine hope—shall we confess it?—had been so obstinately recuperative as to revive in her surreptitious visions of a domiciliary intimacy continued long enough to break down his coldness even against his judgement

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54. "Those who are not of this world can do little else to arrest the errors of the obstinately worldly

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55. Night and day, without interruption save of brief sleep which only wove retrospect and fear into a fantastic present, he felt the scenes of his earlier life coming between him and everything else, as obstinately as when we look through the window from a lighted room, the objects we turn our backs on are still before us, instead of the grass and the trees The successive events inward and outward were there in one view: though each might be dwelt on in turn, the rest still kept their hold in the consciousness

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56. They are just the suspicions that cling the most obstinately, because they lie in people's inclination and can never be disproved

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57. He would not explain himself, but remained obstinately seated on his

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58. In that case we should probably have defended the Shevardino Redoubt- our left flank- still more obstinately

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59. But Pierre did not know this; he was entirely absorbed in what lay before him, and was tortured- as those are who obstinately undertake a task that is impossible for them not because of its difficulty but because of its incompatibility with their natures- by the fear of weakening at the decisive moment and so losing his self- esteem

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60. I attempted to persuade him of the naughtiness of showing reluctance to meet his father; still he obstinately resisted any progress towards dressing, and I had to call for my master’s assistance in coaxing him out of bed

61. Linton and his daughter would frequently walk out among the reapers; at the carrying of the last sheaves they stayed till dusk, and the evening happening to be chill and damp, my master caught a bad cold, that settled obstinately on his lungs, and confined him indoors throughout the whole of the winter, nearly without intermission

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62. " He obstinately denied everything, the theft and his character of convict

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63. An admission upon this last point would certainly have been better, and would have won for him the indulgence of his judges; the counsel had advised him to do this; but the accused had obstinately refused, thinking, no doubt, that he would save everything by admitting nothing

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64. Boulatruelle obstinately refused to reveal his name

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65. Would you abandon them for that? Would you turn their distress into a malediction? Cannot the light penetrate these masses? Let us return to that cry: Light! and let us obstinately persist therein! Light! Light! Who knows whether these opacities will not become transparent? Are not revolutions transfigurations? Come, philosophers, teach, enlighten, light up, think aloud, speak aloud, hasten joyously to the great sun, fraternize with the public place, announce the good news, spend your alphabets lavishly, proclaim rights, sing the Marseillaises, sow enthusiasms, tear green boughs from the oaks

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66. They all had the air of having lived a long time ago, and of obstinately resisting the sepulchre

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67. He obstinately maintained his opinion against his keeper of the seals; he disputed the ground with the guillotine foot by foot against the crown attorneys, those chatterers of the law, as he called them

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68. It is these types of traders who obstinately hold on to a losing position, adding to it on the way down, using positive thinking techniques to visualize this fiasco eventually turning into a winning trade

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69. acuminata, which is not a particularly distinct species, obstinately failed to fertilise, or to be fertilised, by no less than eight other species of Nicotiana

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70. Again, I sometimes say to myself, When many millions of men, without heat, without ill-will, without personal feeling of any kind, demand of you a few shillings only, without the possibility, such is their constitution, of retracting or altering their present demand, and without the possibility, on your side, of appeal to any other millions, why expose yourself to this overwhelming brute force? You do not resist cold and hunger, the winds and the waves, thus obstinately; you quietly submit to a thousand similar necessities

71. But she persevered obstinately, and as the muddy water squelched through her broken shoes and the wind seemed trying to drag her thin jacket from her, she talked to herself as she walked, though she did not speak aloud or even move her lips

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72. And every morning, perched on our stays, rows of these birds were seen; and spite of our hootings, for a long time obstinately clung to the hemp, as though they deemed our ship some drifting, uninhabited craft; a thing appointed to desolation, and therefore fit roosting-place for their homeless selves

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73. He obstinately will remain,

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74. At Borodino the Russian redoubts turned out to be mere sketches of fortifications, and the trenches shallow and unprotected; yet the Russians defended them so obstinately that, according to Labaume’s description, the centre of the Great Redoubt presented an inexpressibly terrible picture

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75. ? " And then I began recalling minutely in every point, and with growing satisfaction, how I had stood up before Katerina Niko-laevna and how her insolent but extremely astonished eyes had gazed at me obstinately

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76. repugnance, always seemed vexed to meet her and was sometimes obstinately silent throughout her visit

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77. And therefore I now, in view of the twm which you obstinately will give to your explanation, feel myself justified on my side in tellmg you the truth without ceremony, that is, I have come to the conclusion that it is ut-ter-Iy impossible for Baron Biiring to meet you

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