All 10 Uses of
obstinate
in
Fathers and Sons
- In the first place, I am impatient and obstinate—you should ask Katya; and secondly, I am very easily carried away.'†
Chpt 16 *
- When this happened to her, she did not very quickly come out again; her face even assumed at such times an obstinate, almost stupid expression.†
Chpt 16
- Then he would set off to the forest and walk with long strides about it, smashing the twigs that came in his way, and cursing under his breath both her and himself; or he would get into the hay-loft in the barn, and, obstinately closing his eyes, try to force himself to sleep, in which, of course, he did not always succeed.†
Chpt 17
- Bazarov maintained a grim and obstinate silence.†
Chpt 19
- 'Yes, a chronic and very obstinate case of icterus.†
Chpt 21
- 'I've noticed how obstinately it sticks to people.†
Chpt 21
- But having resolved on the folly, the friends were even more obstinately silent than before, and seemed positively ill-humoured.†
Chpt 22
- Bazarov went on obstinately and grimly working …. and meanwhile there was in Nikolai Petrovitch's house one creature to whom, if he did not open his heart, he at least was glad to talk….†
Chpt 23
- 'My brother is a man of the old school, hot-tempered and obstinate….†
Chpt 24
- I know; you're very obstinate.'†
Chpt 25
Definition:
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(obstinate) stubbornly not doing what others want