stubbornness

How To Use stubbornness In A Sentence

• He was remembered for having an absolute fearlessness in confronting authority on matters of principle and a complete stubbornness if he believed he was right.
• To me, he was the embodiment of decrepitude and stubbornness.
• A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. Edgar Watson Howe 
• Elsinore, this time due to me and my own stubbornness, is rolling in the wind and heading nowhere in a light breeze at the rate of nothing but driftage per hour. CHAPTER XLVI
• Apparently it shows in my stubbornness and forthrightness.
• Donkeys, however -- equus asinus - where we get the word asinine -- are principally known for stubbornness, a demonstration of which is now in session. Will Durst: Swamp Drainage Detritus
• They simply want to get things done, and it's that steady, dogged persistence that winds up being viewed as stubbornness.
• What keeps me going is a belief in the hospice movement, my pig-headed stubbornness and more recently, the advert for the Cancer Research Fund, which shows three girls playing in a meadow.
• And Iola, while she was provoked by what she called his stubbornness, was yet secretly proud of that silently resisting strength she could neither shake nor break. The Doctor : a Tale of the Rockies
• It also reveals the stubbornness of bankers who refused to concede their error even after repeated court proceedings.