How To Use Stubbornness In A Sentence
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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.
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To me, he was the embodiment of decrepitude and stubbornness.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. Edgar Watson Howe
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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
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Apparently it shows in my stubbornness and forthrightness.
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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
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They simply want to get things done, and it's that steady, dogged persistence that winds up being viewed as stubbornness.
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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.
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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
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It also reveals the stubbornness of bankers who refused to concede their error even after repeated court proceedings.
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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
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For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
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Anyone who's interested can learn something about the limits of political manipulation and the public's stubbornness just by visiting the nation's squares and marketplaces.
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The Lord blessed Tommy with many special attributes, among them a unique stubbornness, a special form of loving, confident arrogance, a quaint sense of humor and an unconditional love for all.
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My theological orientation does not happen to be one which minimizes the stubbornness of man's depravity.
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The exhibition's statement that Bauer's stubbornness made a skeptical Mossad probe Ricardo Klement's identity is an admirable concession that Israeli espionage owes one of its major achievements to a Diaspora Jew, a gratitude expressed also through the display of the teleprinter and tickertape by which an agent was ordered to inform Bauer of Eichmann's kidnapping.
How Israeli Spies Pulled It Off
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Love is kind, and it bears all things. Before you complain about my uncooperativeness, stubbornness, or laziness, please ask me if something is disturbing me.
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When the battle was over, Samuel came to meet him, and rebuked him as if he had been a child for what he called rebellion and stubbornness.
Miriam's Schooling and Other Papers
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It's one of those juggernaut of fate stories where due to irresponsibility, stubbornness, and/or willful deafness, everything manages to turn out for the worst.
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She's a curious mixture of stubbornness and servility.
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Not out of stubbornness or avarice or an egotistical desire to chase longevity records.
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They were also as likely to have traits associated with compulsive personality disorder: stubbornness, dictatorial tendencies, perfectionism and an excessive devotion to work.
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His stubbornness would try the patience of a saint.
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-- And might not an early care, of instilling good principles into them when young, have prevented much of that stubbornness and untractableness you complain of in country-born negroes?
The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War
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She's a curious mixture of stubbornness and servility.
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One of the things that makes people good at sport is a certain stubbornness and inability to change.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her anxiety had blinded her to the fact that his stubbornness was a direct result of hers.
Christianity Today
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She was trembling, but though there was no stubbornness in her countenance, the expression meek and humble, she made no movement toward obeying her father's order.
Elsie Dinsmore
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It also reveals the stubbornness of bankers who refused to concede their error even after repeated court proceedings.
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Ignorance, fear, inertia, and stubbornness remain to be overcome.
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I might have become a dangerous man with all that stubbornness and obstinacy built into me.
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He blamed the ‘arrogance’ and ‘linguistic stubbornness’ of unilingual English Canadians for breaking the country apart.
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I assume that stubbornness is what has made them more successful and less criminal than their male counterparts.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Interracial Marriage Rates Going Up
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To me, it seems the refusal to do so is based in stubbornness rather than reason.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 2010 » March
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Their national character contains a certain stubbornness, a necessary characteristic for contemporary folk artists.
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Great men have great idiosyncrasies, and the stubbornness with which Wolfe reproduces his exclamatory voice after it has been mimicked so many times makes it appear less a fault than a flourish.
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His refusal to talk was simple stubbornness.
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During his interview with the AP after the team's morning shootaround, Bryant would not answer a follow-up question on his self-described stubbornness and proclivity to hold a grudge, and how those qualities have remained constants during his maturation from a teenage NBA rookie into an eight-year veteran.
USATODAY.com - Bryant finally speaks, ending 11-day silence
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Every case of poverty, except that with which you come personally in contact is due to stubbornness on the part of the poor, and you will fight to the last ditch against any measures that are proposed to eliminate the causes of misery, and yet you get all worked up about the fruits of the system you are upholding whenever it invades your backyard.
Aleta Dey
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They are parochial in their attitudes, limited in their views and legendary in their stubbornness and resistance to change.
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However, if we consider that the LWM organizes today millions of Brazilians who are in the field with no land and are ill-accommodated in the outskirts of our major cities, dreaming of a piece of land to be happy, we believe that any radicalism and hardening of the movement, is nothing if compared with the stupid stubbornness of Brazilian State not to create a simple, fast and secure way for land acquisition.
Jakarta IMC Newswire
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His stubbornness is such that he will not cease from attacking you, either by himself or others, unless he dies.
"Can the killing of abortionists be justified?"
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From chess to poker to racquetball, the science officer was a formidable competitor, employing a level of tenacity and even stubbornness that had become the stuff of much good-natured, respectful ribbing aboard ship.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
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Historically, immovable objects are easy to out maneuver and real long-term stubbornness is the Maginot Line of negotiating styles.
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‘Whatever,’ I said, and she laughed at my stubbornness, but I changed the subject back to her and Drew, and my little catnap in the arms of the red-haired rogue was soon forgotten.
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His stubbornness was taken by the augurs to signify the eternal nature of the boundaries of the Roman state.
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Sweden overachieved in Japan and Korea, winning the ‘group of death’ almost through sheer stubbornness, but their methodical approach is not the sort to bring tournament success.
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The concept is nothing more than a word for stubbornness.
Brush of Darkness
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Generation gap, conservation, reminiscence, pedantry and stubbornness all basically derive from that.
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A bad argument is like a bad marriage, marked by rage, perturbation, bewilderment, and stubbornness.
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Her anxiety had blinded her to the fact that his stubbornness was a direct result of hers.
Christianity Today
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Don't be victimized by negative emotions and thinking. Don't be handicapped by stubbornness and inflexibility. Dr T.P.Chia
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But his stubbornness during the last months of the war caused resentment after the war and some obloquy.
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Trying to approach this gentle and mannerly retired professor about what seems to be going wrong, Miller encounters the deep stubbornness at the core of his being.
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It is he that makes the sinner see all the deformity and filthiness that is within; it is he that pulleth off all the sinner's rags, and makes him see his naked and wretched condition; it is he that shows us the blindness of the mind, the stubbornness of the will, the disorderedness of the affections, the searedness of the conscience, the plague of our hearts, and the sin of our natures, and therein the desperateness of our state.
The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
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Power is hierarchical; the rebel challenges authority, presumes to be the defiant equal of his creator or of his king, and is convinced that his stubbornness will redeem him.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. Edgar Watson Howe
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I couldn't tell if his refusal to talk was simple stubbornness.
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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
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Also, to refuse to fold when a player knows that he or she is beat is stubbornness, not poker.
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From then - thanks to the stubbornness of the Queen's back line - the match seemed to fizzle out, and by the end the scoreline probably flattered the victors.
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That is they kept quibbling and prevaricating and showing stubbornness.
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I was committed to my plan out of sheer stubbornness if not near-poverty, and once I changed into some cutoffs and got on a southbound bus to Tulum, I was feeling much better.
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The tendency of Down's children towards stubbornness and inflexibility needs to be countered from an early age.
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Now I have to rip my story to bare bones and try it from every possible angle to make it work with my original two characters because my stubbornness is prevailing in this matter.
Oh, VCR games! heart you.
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I accredit my stubbornness to his chromosomes.
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There is a widely known stubbornness by these programmers in refusing to learn from the lessons proprietary software has to offer.
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But an unquenchable thirst for victory allied to sheer stubbornness has got this Celtic side where they are and they weren't for ending this game minus all three points.
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Stubbornness was a characteristic he shared with his mother.
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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.
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And he stuck with the lesson like a burr, that bred-in-the-bone Kendrick stubbornness keeping him at it even when he was close to tears of sheer frustration.
Wild Blood
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Try to find a way to turn her stubbornness from a weakness to a strength.
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Love is often a victim of its stubbornness, sentimentality, irrationality and absurdity. Dr T.P.Chia
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Her anxiety had blinded her to the fact that his stubbornness was a direct result of hers.
Christianity Today
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The Furies represent a guilty conscience and Medusa represents stubbornness that turns the heart to stone.
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Generation gap, conservation, reminiscence, pedantry and stubbornness all basically derive from that.
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Stubbornness was a characteristic he shared with his mother.
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Annie excluded herself carefully from this part of the programme, with a kind of unapproachable haughtiness which had three strains of stubbornness and one strain of fiery youthful anger in its composition, while it was a complete enigma to May.
A Houseful of Girls
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For me it's been plain scrappy stubbornness, not necessarily talent or self-confidence, that pushes me forward.
GAR HAYWOOD, HERE...
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Simple stubbornness and egoism can't explain everything - Ralph is too smart and too worldwise for that, even if his followers aren't.
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With the headstrong stubbornness of youth, I was sure I understood.