All 3 Uses of
obstinate
in
The Age of Innocence
- Beaufort evidently felt it, and being unused to dismissals, stood staring at her with an obstinate line between his eyes.†
Chpt 12 *
- It was their old interminable argument as to the obstinate unwillingness of the "clever people" to frequent the fashionable, and both men knew that there was no use in prolonging it.†
Chpt 14
- The van der Luydens had rescued Madame Olenska from a doom almost as icy; and though there were many other reasons for being attracted to her, Archer knew that beneath them all lay the gentle and obstinate determination to go on rescuing her.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(obstinate) stubbornly not doing what others want