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Stubborn in sentence

154 examples of Stubborn in a sentence

There were a couple that were a little stubborn, but I had to talk to them.
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."
It's difficult and stubborn.
I was a very stubborn kid.
Pedestrian zones, congestion fees, emission limits in cities like California cities have, there's lots and lots that cities can do even when opaque, stubborn nations refuse to act.
The question is whether we are willing to continue our support of a failed strategy based on our stubborn, blissful, voluntary ignorance at the cost of the deaths of thousands of our young.
Big businesses and brands can change and shift those social norms and make a difference for those habits that are so stubborn.
He actually meant to quote John Adams' defense of British soldiers in the Boston Massacre trials that facts are stubborn things.
But I actually think there's a bit of accidental wisdom in what he said, because facts are stubborn things, but sometimes they're stupid, too.
So that's not about being a geek and being smart, that's about being ... stubborn?
LT: That's about being stubborn.
CA: You're a very smart computer coder, and you're hellish stubborn.
I've learned that no matter how much we want to believe we can, we cannot know or control everything our loved ones think and feel, and the stubborn belief that we are somehow different, that someone we love would never think of hurting themselves or someone else, can cause us to miss what's hidden in plain sight.
When "white" occurs, the frequently co-occurring words are "wealthy," "progressive," "conventional," "stubborn," "successful," "educated."
"Damn it, I can be just as stubborn as this thing."
I'm way too stubborn for that.
Albuquerque is now one of the national leaders in combating some of the most stubborn and persistent social issues that we have.
Here I was, being stubborn towards a trained soldier with a gun.
And these obstacles were frustrating, but I was also a stubborn teenager.
my mother's tongue is a telegram from her mother decorated with the coqui's of el campo so even when her lips can barely stretch themselves around english, her accent is a stubborn compass always pointing her towards home.
Once upon a time, I was a stubborn five-year-old who decided to become a marine biologist.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine miles went well, the last mile's proving incredibly stubborn.
We didn't fit in normal work; we couldn't work for somebody else, we're stubborn and we have all these other traits.
The two characters who dominate the action -- the "evil lord" in his privileged bubble and the "stubborn, crazy artist" are pure types with zero subtlety or nuance, and all their actions emanate from cartoonish extremes.
I was assaulted by loud music, STRANGE images, no plot and a stubborn refusal to make ANY sense.
And I ought to know; because I myself went into the theatrical premiere of BEGINNING with stubborn arms folded, and prepared for the absolute worst, which I was sure had to come.
Recognition internationally came in the way of 'Camilla' (1994), starring Bridget Fonda, along with the actress who in 1990 won an Oscar in Best Actress in a Leading Role category at the age of 80, paving the way for middle-aged actresses to still have hope, for her portrayal of a stubborn old Jewish woman in 'Driving Miss Daisy' (1989), late Jessica Tandy.
What the movie couldn't really go into was how Beauchamp wasn't liked by the Negro people either, because he was equally as stubborn.
Please don't be so stubborn, give us a break.
He delivers a impeccable performance as a stubborn strong-willed boy in the gentler times of yesteryear.
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