The sanguinary obstinacy which no longer proposed any object to itself save defiance and revenge, was converting a war which at first wore an aspect of a legitimate constitutional struggle, into a conflict with brigands.
So far from wishing to "boss the show," as some people suspected, most Americans had an unnatural timidity, and one count of their charge against Wilson was his obstinacy in his dealings with Lloyd George and Clemenceau.
Miss Falconer, coloring still more violently, yet, with characteristic obstinacy plunging on in the expression of her pet opinions.
Mrs. Ross, with much obstinacy of her own, was one of those people who sometimes bluster, but always yield and quail before genuine, sober firmness.
Persist may be from obstinacy alone, and either with or against rights.
Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
Persist is frequently used in a bad sense, implying obstinacy in pursuing an unworthy aim.
He no sooner saw that her eye glistened and her cheekreddened than his obstinacy was at once subbued.
The obstinacywith which he stickles for the wrong.
Yet we were on the verge of failure, because of self-willed obstinacy on the part of the operators.
This obstinacy was utterly silly from their own standpoint, and well-nigh criminal from the standpoint of the people at large.
The degrees of obstinacy in young minds, are very different; as different must be the degrees of persevering severity.
Taylor in 1756:--'When I am musing alone, I feel a pang for every moment that any human being has by my peevishness or obstinacy spent in uneasiness.
No severity is cruel which obstinacy makes necessary; for the greatest cruelty would be to desist, and leave the scholar too careless for instruction, and too much hardened for reproof.
Why, Sir, till you can fix the degree of obstinacy and negligence of the scholars, you cannot fix the degree of severity of the master.
The victorious obstinacy of a single boy would make his future endeavours of reformation or instruction totally ineffectual.
When a man falls by a slip or otherwise, the opposing combatants fight over his body with great obstinacy and animation.
The reader may easily guess how this stupid obstinacy of the merchant ended.
Said observed that the obstinacy of the nagah was a bad omen.
Nay, one cause of corruption in religion is the refusal to follow the course of doctrine as it moves on, and an obstinacy in the notions of the past.
She was silent, but the same obstinacy was legible in her face that had characterized the girl of sixteen.
He insisted upon the completion of his daring attempt with all the obstinacy of a nature that held cheaply his own life, as well as the lives of others.
She knew what her own obstinacy had effected in uniting her with her lover, and she would not see why Alice could not persist in the same manner.
Molly, however, took a much more practical view of the case, and attacked Benno's obstinacy from the other side.
This is your old obstinacy which has so often stood in your way in life," said the president with irritation.
The situation was for three days exceedingly critical, from the temper and character of the mob and from the obstinacy and powerlessness of the officials.
His obstinacy availed him nothing as against hers, which was the greater of the two.
And even this extraordinary obstinacy (as of an unyielding bonnet-block) he could endure at a time when one of his eyes warmed itself at his friend, while the other cooled itself at his grave.
The people there had rejected former missionaries; their savage manners, and inflexible obstinacy seemed insurmountable barriers to the stream of Grace.
The appeal was made in vain; and the governor left the house, indignantly declaring that by her obstinacy she was guilty of the death of her son.
He also checked the pride and wicked obstinacy of the heretics, telling them that they might discern the true Church by the multitude of its martyrs.
The whole history of the Old Testament displays nothing but the vain efforts of God to vanquish the obstinacy of his people.
The obstinacyof this prince defeats, in ten successive trials, the divine omnipotence, of which Moses is the depositary.
He wished to die, to render the Jews culpable, and to have the pleasure of rising again the third day, in order to confound the ingratitude and obstinacy of his fellow-citizens.
Have we not daily proof of a similar obstinacy and perverseness?
This narrative intimates with sufficient plainness that Lot's wife and daughters were spared for his sake; and that it was nothing but the impenitent obstinacy of his other family connexions, that prevented their escape.
Still his obstinacy did not permit the least relaxation of that rigorous discipline he had imposed: although, while he imbittered their lives, he failed of promoting his own interest.
Here we behold an awful specimen of the obstinacy of sinners, the effect of disobedience, and the determination of God, in a visible and striking manner, to vindicate his holy name.
I would really rather write poetry than music just now; it requires no end ofobstinacy to stick to one thing.
Altogether it will require a good deal of obstinacy to get all this done, and you have not really put me in the right mind for it.
This eternal need of self-condensation for the purpose of self-defence supplies me with obstinacy and contempt, but not with the love of expansion and production.
What this obstinacy is, is the problem that confronts theologians.
We have all been perfect at heart since that date, equipped with beautiful spirits, which only a strange perverse obstinacy leads us to soil.
I suppose it's part obstinacy that makes me too stubborn to run away from disgrace, and partly it's father.
In this case the obstinacy of Rosa's attachment may prove too strong for the church, but the church is the only thing which in her undisciplined mind could combat her inclination for a moment.
There are women, I know, who can meet obstinacy with guile.
The rest of the party looked at each other, and smiled; and Mr. Merton asked Agnes, in French, if she did not think obstinacy made a person very disagreeable.
Mrs. Merton, though exceedingly provoked, could hardly help laughing at the obstinacy of the man.
But one cannot be too much on his guard in such a case, lest his action be biased by obstinacy or an undue regard for the opinions of men.
This ill judged obstinacy threw the governor, who soon obtained possession of the fort, into the arms of the opposite party.
I intend nothing of the kind; but you are aware of the imprudent step which Tengelyi's obstinacy induced me to take.
The Grand Duchess had almost invariably yielded her will to Sylvia's in the end; but she told herself that she had done so once too often, and the weaknesses of her past buttressed her obstinacy in the present.
Poor little Sylvia, so young, so inexperienced, so thoroughly girlish for all her naughty obstinacy and recklessness, sweet and loving and impulsive!
It was a precisely similar case, only that in that instance all the circumstances were far more unfavourable than they are now, when really prejudice and obstinacy alone stand in the way of the young people's happiness.
She will show more obstinacy even than I, you may depend upon it.
As has already been stated, the two families were connected by marriage, but this circumstance was ignored on both sides with equal obstinacy and hostile feeling.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "obstinacy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
