pertinacious

How To Use pertinacious In A Sentence

• If a pertinacious minority can control the opinion of a majority respecting the best mode of conducting it, the majority, in order that something may be done, must conform to the views of the minority; and thus the sense of the smaller number will overrule that of the greater …. The Volokh Conspiracy » California’s Woes and Prop 13
• A mule is stubborn, and may manifest glimmering adumbrations of cunning; but the husky can be characterized as pertinacious, deceitful, sharp, and, above all, well capable of deductive reasoning. Husky — The Wolf Dog of the North
• Suspendeds, '' [FN#446] and Al-Mutalammis the" pertinacious "satirist, friend and intimate with Tarafah of the" Prize Poem. Arabian nights. English
• Well, I shall now offer a balanced view based on the facts before me: I find your attempts quite perspicacious and pertinacious, and wish you well accordingly.
• The bull was in the greatest fury, and rose to the surface, snorting and blowing in his impotent rage; but as the ambatch float was exceedingly large, and this naturally accompanied his movements, he tried to escape from his imaginary persecutor, and dived constantly, only to find his pertinacious attendant close to him upon regaining the surface. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3
• He was pertinacious, thorough and, despite the somewhat ponderous brutality of his appearance, he was quick-witted. IN LOVE AND WAR
• Like most successful politicians, she is pertinacious and single-minded in the pursuit of her goals.
• Certainly, if the confederates of this roving gipsy were so pertinacious in tormenting poor weak Mr. Mompesson, their pertinacity is a most extraordinary instance of what revenge is capable of. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• I have sat silently at the feet of GaryV for years on this site and so have him to thank for most of my of my pertinaciousness, for I have learned from him that because pimps will stop at nothing to retain their hold on the sheeple, so should we be all the more dogged in our polemic for the TRUTH whereby they might be made free. Pulpit Pimps
• I have sent our folks out to gather fruit at a venture: and now this misery will soon be ended with his illness; driven away by deluges of lemonade, I think, made in defiance of wasps, flies, and a kind of volant beetle, wonderfully beautiful and very pertinacious in his attacks; and who makes dreadful depredations on my sugar and currant-jelly, so necessary on this occasion of illness, and so attractive to all these detestable inhabitants of a place so lovely. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I