All 12 Uses of
obstinate
in
Of Human Bondage
- I know you're obstinate and headstrong.†
Chpt 21-22
- He had a great deal of work to do, and could not waste more time on a boy who seemed to him insanely obstinate.
Chpt 21-22 *obstinate = stubbornly unyielding to other's wishes
- Also Philip had been given to understand that people adhered to other faiths only from obstinacy or self-interest: in their hearts they knew they were false; they deliberately sought to deceive others.†
Chpt 27-28
- The Frau Professor tried obstinacy, anger, tears, but the three old ladies routed her, and with a sudden assumption of virtuous indignation she said that she would put a stop to the whole thing.†
Chpt 29-30
- That evening at supper Fraulein Cacilie, redder than usual, with a look of obstinacy on her face, took her place punctually; but Herr Sung did not appear, and for a while Philip thought he was going to shirk the ordeal.†
Chpt 29-30
- The letter was shown to the Vicar, but served only to increase his obstinacy.†
Chpt 39-40
- He was an obstinate fellow, and the suspicion that his talent did not lie in one direction made him inclined to force circumstances and aim notwithstanding precisely in that direction.†
Chpt 51-52
- Dunsford good-naturedly wanted to discuss the causes of Philip's failure, but Philip was obstinately casual.†
Chpt 59-60
- He could not help comparing her with Mildred; and he contrasted with the one's obstinate stupidity, which refused interest to everything she did not know, the other's quick appreciation and ready intelligence.†
Chpt 65-66
- There was a morbid obstinacy in him which forced him to do the thing he had determined.†
Chpt 77-78
- I tell her it's about time she stopped, but she's an obstinate woman, she's got into the habit of it now, and I don't believe she'll be satisfied till she's had twenty.'†
Chpt 87-88
- "He's that obstinate, there's no doing anything with "im.'†
Chpt 113-114
Definition:
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(obstinate) stubbornly not doing what others want