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Some of the protestors disbanded when the police arrived, but others remained obdurate.obdurate = stubbornly persistent
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The stony obduracy shattered and what shone through was the countenance of an insanely angry child. (source)obduracy = stubborn persistence
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"Over the years military planners have arrived at a rule of thumb which dictates that functional fighting units cannot be substantially larger than 200 men," Dunbar writes. ...companies have remained obdurately stuck at this size despite all the advances in communications technology since the first world war. (source)obdurately = stubbornly persistent
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It seemed to Ralph, as he and Helen tried to figure out what paying their full taxes would mean, that mistakes were harder to erase than he remembered. Was he using a different kind of pencil? Also, the numbers themselves seemed solid, obdurate, much less fun. Instead of many ways, among which he could pick, they came out one way. And the way they came out, he and Helen listed between barely squeezing by and undeniably short. (source)obdurate = stubbornly persistent and unconcerned with others feelings
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Breakfast, dinner, and supper were very silent meals—for Anne still remained obdurate. (source)obdurate = stubbornly persistent
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He was cruel enough to inflict the severest punishment, artful enough to descend to the lowest trickery, and obdurate enough to be insensible to the voice of a reproving conscience. (source)obdurate = showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings (and stubbornly persistent in doing that wrong)
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He was obdurate and imperious, not even slightly defensive.† (source)obdurate = stubbornly persistent
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Your obduracy is quite, is ...well, can't you see how ridiculous this is?† (source)obduracy = stubborn persistence -- especially in wrongdoing OR (more rarely except in classic literature) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
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And I fixed my thoughts an him obdurately, that guard, calculating how a vampire might get to him, how take his life and his lantern and his keys.† (source)obdurately = with stubborn persistence
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There was something about Mrs. Meany's obdurate self-imprisonment that smacked of religious persecution—if not eternal damnation.† (source)obdurate = stubbornly persistent
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Then later again, in the pure consequence of Elizabeth Bishop's style, in the sheer obduracy of Robert Lowell's and in the barefaced confrontation of Patrick Kavanagh's, I encountered further reasons for believing in poetry's ability — and responsibility — to say what happens, to "pity the planet," to be "not concerned with Poetry."† (source)obduracy = stubborn persistence -- especially in wrongdoing OR (more rarely except in classic literature) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
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"No candles!" repeated Mr. Kernan obdurately.† (source)obdurately = with stubborn persistence
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To get this far one had to have an uncommonly obdurate personality.† (source)obdurate = stubbornly persistent
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He threw himself against the leather straps of the chair, against the solid air all around him, against the obduracy of the queen of Attolia.† (source)obduracy = stubborn persistence -- especially in wrongdoing OR (more rarely except in classic literature) showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings
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And she was looking at me with two calm, violet eyes and a child's mouth that seemed almost obdurately soft, obdurately the cupid's bow unsullied by paint or personality; and the mouth smiled now and said, as those eyes seemed to fire: 'Yes, he's as you said he would be, and I love him already.† (source)obdurately = with stubborn persistence
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She had a raven's heart, small and obdurate.† (source)obdurate = stubbornly persistent
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