All 14 Uses of
obstinate
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- Nevertheless he kept thinking how, in spite of the time, he could carry it off, and didn't merely brood, but discussed, obstinately, how it could be done.†
Chpt 6 *
- But it was never so clear in anyone as in Mimi Villars, whose actual body was her recruiting place and who more conspicuously issued her own warrant, license, diploma, asserting what she was, and she had no usual place of legitimate activity, like a store, office, or family, or membership anywhere, but banked all on her clinching will, her hard reason, and her obstinate voice.†
Chpt 11
- However, that I shouldn't be too good to do as he was doing was of enormous importance to him, and the obstinacy that had always made me hold out against him for unspoken or anyway insufficient reasons seemed at last over.†
Chpt 12
- If not, it might be dangerous because it's so obstinate, and be a criminal.†
Chpt 12
- Still, when such an assertion as this is backed by one person and maintained for a long time, obstinacy finally gets the upper hand.†
Chpt 14
- I had to accept her version of everything, this being the obstinacy of assertion I spoke of.†
Chpt 14
- This is why we make the obstinate sign of possession.†
Chpt 19
- But I couldn't take much hope from that, because smiling and abstraction, obstinacy, intention to hurt, alternated fast in her cloudy white nervousness, and I saw she was unable to gather together her feelings toward me.†
Chpt 19
- There was no such first-rate thing that I could boast, and who was I, not to make up my mind and be so obstinate?†
Chpt 21
- I must have had a feeling since I was a kid about these axial lines which made me want to have my existence on them, and so I have said 'no' like a stubborn fellow to all my persuaders, just on the obstinacy of my memory of these lines, never entirely clear.†
Chpt 22
- " "You really are a persistent and obstinate type of a guy," said Clem.†
Chpt 22
- I'd pass days trying to get used to this moldy though fancied-up apartment, somewhat obstinate, seeing that it was now my place.†
Chpt 26
- This made her a mirror, like, where I could see my own obstinacy of yore and how it must have looked when I balked.†
Chpt 26
- I gave a double-take at her water-sparkling eyes and freezing, wavering, mascara-lined, goblin, earnest and disciplinarian, membranous, and yet gorgeous face, with its fairy soot of pink and that red snare of her mouth; yet feminine; yet mischievous; yet still hopefully and obstinately seductive.†
Chpt 26
Definition:
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(obstinate) stubbornly not doing what others want