intransigent

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He had been ill a long time—in the mind, as we now realized, reliving instances of his fantastic intransigence in the new light of his affliction and endeavoring to feel a sorrow for him which never, quite, came true.  (source) James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son, 1955

Despite the gross note of calculation at the end (one rescues 432,000 human beings from slavery and it turns out to be a saving of expense), the proposal was a reasonable and statesmanlike one, and it is incredible that the intransigence of all but one of the states involved should have consigned it to defeat.  (source) Richard Hofstadter, Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth, 1948

Avilion had once had an air of stability that amounted to intransigence — a large, dumpy boulder plunked down in the middle of the stream of time, refusing to be moved for anybody — but now it was dogeared, apologetic, as if it were about to collapse in on itself.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

Nevertheless, he could not help thinking of him as one of those fatal men possessed by a dangerous idealism and an intransigent purity that color everything they touch with disaster, especially the women who have the misfortune to fall in love with them.†  (source) Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits, 1986

After arriving in Base Camp with the ailing Kruse on the evening of May 6, Fischer made two satellite phone calls to Seattle in which he complained bitterly to his business partner, Karen Dickinson) and to his publicist, Jane Bromet,* about Boukreev's intransigence.†  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

Jackson took me back upstairs in the aged elevator, against whose curlicued cast-iron, unfriendly wall I leaned with my eyes closed in a state of stupefaction, unable to believe any of this or, even more intransigently, to accept it.†  (source) William Styron, Sophie's Choice, 1976

General Dreedle could be as intransigent with anyone else when displeased as he was with Colonel Moodus.†  (source) Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961

Worse, any attempt at exposure would risk a backlash so severe that Peking would cry insult and outrage, and revert to suspicion and intransigence.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Supremacy, 1986

King Orrin, as Eragon expected, proved to be the most intransigent.†  (source) Christopher Paolini, Inheritance, 2011

Since she had been very small she had been troubled by Fernanda's strictness, her custom of deciding in favor of extremes; and she would have been capable of a much more difficult sacrifice than the clavichord lessons merely not to run up against her intransigence.†  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967

The authorities were equally intransigent: I could not be taken off quarry detail, I could not have a table and chair, and under no circumstances would I be able to go to Pretoria to use the law library.†  (source) Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom, 1994

Like Jefferson, Adams believed in free trade in theory, but faced with British intransigence, he began losing hope of ever attaining such an agreement and cautioned Jefferson, "We must not, my friend, be the bubbles of our own liberal sentiments."†  (source) David McCullough, John Adams, 2002

....An intransigent devotion to the pursuit of truth, Miss Taggart?†  (source) Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957