Obstinacy
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She was chewing the mouthfuls painfully; he made her pay for each with a caress, in his jealous
obstinacy
not willing to die until he had had her again in the other man's presence.
More example sentences with word obstinacy
When I saw Joel Meyerowitz recently, I told him how much I admired his passionate obstinacy, his determination to push through all the bureaucratic red tape to get to work, and he laughed, and he said, "I'm stubborn, but I think what's more important is my passionate optimism."
Abdullah faces the
obstinacy
of dozens of half-brothers and the recalcitrance of thousands of male cousins and nephews, in addition to the dogmatic admonitions of the entrenched Wahhabis.
But then the TPP’s boosters have to contend with the
obstinacy
of Japanese rice farmers (Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is vowing to address that) and of US patent and copyright holders.
One option for overcoming German
obstinacy
would be to pursue a series of small compromises.
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