Sample Sentences forobdurate (editor-reviewed)
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Some of the protestors disbanded when the police arrived, but others remained obdurate.obdurate = stubbornly persistent
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Breakfast, dinner, and supper were very silent meals—for Anne still remained obdurate. (source)
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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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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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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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He was obdurate and imperious, not even slightly defensive.† (source)
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Your obduracy is quite, is ...well, can't you see how ridiculous this is?† (source)
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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)
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To get this far one had to have an uncommonly obdurate personality.† (source)
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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)
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"No candles!" repeated Mr. Kernan obdurately.† (source)
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There was something about Mrs. Meany's obdurate self-imprisonment that smacked of religious persecution—if not eternal damnation.† (source)
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But to achieve this goal, it was necessary above all to strike at the Asiatic principle of bondage and obduracy at its vital center point, at the very nerve of resistance—in Vienna.† (source)
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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)
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So Rex was sent to Farm Street to Father Mowbray, a priest renowned for his triumphs with obdurate catechumens.† (source)
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