How To Use Pertinacity In A Sentence
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The forward cylinder was depending on that unknown force men call the pertinacity of materials, which now and then balances that other heartbreaking power, the perversity of inanimate things.
The Day's Work - Volume 1
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That first assignment of "tailing" kept him thirty-six hours without sleep, but he stuck to his trail, stuck to it with the blind pertinacity of a bloodhound, and at the end transcended mere animalism by buying a tip from a friendly bartender.
Never-Fail Blake
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Such thing like this has happened frequently and I know it is my essence: violating knowingly and pertinacity and just being conscious and penitential afterward.
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This was returned to Buckingham Palace in 1947, largely through the pertinacity of Queen Mary.
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What character and pertinacity to score 160 runs in those conditions.
Times, Sunday Times
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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
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She had the kind of pertinacity that sever admits being out of depth, the happy buoyancy that does not require to feel the bottom under one's feet.
The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 3
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I object to something which is conceited and small-minded; but which also has that kind of pertinacity which always belongs to lunatics.
The Appetite of Tyranny Including Letters to an Old Garibaldian
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Their pertinacity in extortion is said to be marvellous.
Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia
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If the lower-class Irishman or Italian, unendowed with judgment to rightly use the little knowledge he already possesses -- to properly interpret his own feelings or guide his own impulses -- has not his church with its priestly control, he will have his secret-society with its secret executive control, its bovine fury, and its senseless pertinacity, the poison-bowl and the dagger.
A Strange Discovery
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The heavy jaw and square-cut chin demonstrated rugged pertinacity and indomitability.
TO THE MAN ON THE TRAIL
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Connie is one of his favourite characters and a re-reader of uncommon pertinacity and guile.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Being an honest man himself, he probably believes in the honesty of his friends, and supports them with a certain pertinacity which is a characteristic quality of his, better perhaps in the conqueror of the South than the President of the nation ....
Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
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The cue of answer: calm and silent, clearly, strong standpoint, positive pertinacity, kind heart and care about other people, strong adaption and sense of humor, optimism and fraternity.
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Again and again. with the inexorable pertinacity of a child intent upon some object important to itself, did he renew his efforts(Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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He stuck to his original proposition with that dogged but convenient pertinacity which is armed against all conviction, and deaf to all reasoning.
The Bride of Lammermoor
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In both instances, it's a good advertisement for pertinacity.
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Irish volcano consisted of the lake of Killarney, which I naturally conceived her to mean; but, on second thoughts, I divined that she alluded to _Ice_land and to Hecla -- and so it proved, though she sustained her volcanic topography for some time with all the amiable pertinacity of 'the feminie.'
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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Soon after, they were attacked by a party of English regulars and militiamen, who drove them into a windmill and two strong stone houses, which they loopholed, and defended themselves with a pertinacity which one would have called heroism, had it been in a better cause.
The Englishwoman in America
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I want no greater proof of the corruption of human nature than the pertinacity with which we seek happiness where happiness cannot be found.
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If, in the face of these facts, somebody still insists that the boundaries of the Sikh religion are blurred, it is sheer pertinacity.
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The gravity which Albert applied to court life in the south was applied with equal pertinacity to the serious business of recreation in the north.
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The heavy jaw and square-cut chin demonstrated rugged pertinacity and indomitability.
To The Man on the Trail
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Page 67 good people of the town, aware of his pertinacity in this particular, had no mind to make points with him, but, on the contrary, rather corroborated him in his dogmatism by an amiable assentation; so that, it is said, he grew daily more peremptory.
Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
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Under the seal of confession he had been intrusted with a secret to which in his conversations with me he could make only indirect allusions, to bring me to understand that my pertinacity was a crime, and that the only honourable course was to yield.
Mauprat
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Add to this a kind of adhesiveness (we can hardly call it obstinacy or pertinacity) of temper, which can make no allowance for change of circumstances, and we think we have a tolerably clear notion of the causes of General McClellan's disasters.
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
