All 11 Uses of
obstinate
in
The Magic Mountain
- He had battled pneumonia to the end, had battled long and obstinately, even though, to all appearances, he had accommodated himself only in part to contemporary life; but now here he lay in state—one could not be sure whether triumphant or vanquished, but in any case, with a stern, satisfied look on his face, though it was greatly changed, his nose looking pinched after his struggles; his lower body shrouded under a coverlet, on which lay a palm frond; his head propped up on the silk pillow so that his chin rested most handsomely in the indentation at the front of the ceremonial ruff.†
Chpt 2.1obstinately = stubbornly unyielding to the wishes of others
- After making sure that he had cigars to smoke, Hans Castorp picked up his walking stick, coat, and hat—the last out of obstinacy, because he was all too definite in his own civilized habits to change them lightly and adopt strange new ones for a mere three weeks.†
Chpt 3.2 *obstinacy = the trait of being stubborn in not doing what others want
- Instead, obstinately baring her rabbit's teeth, she attempted by way of allusion and innuendo to get to the bottom of the relationship of these three young people, only one part of which was clear to her: that poor Karen, as she remarked, could not help enjoying the high life chaperoned by two such smart young cavaliers.†
Chpt 5.8obstinately = stubbornly unyielding to the wishes of others
- She actually admonished Joachim not to be so obstinate, but to show some humility and to see in her, Karoline Stohr, an example of faithful perseverance, of pure willpower: the way she denied herself the pleasure of running the show at home as a housewife in Cannstatt, in order that someday she might be restored whole to her husband, a completely cured wife.†
Chpt 6.1
- Frau Hessenfeld tended to crying jags, Fraulein Levi took to her bed, and Frau Stohr, obstinately baring her rabbitlike teeth, announced almost hourly her superstitious fear of a sudden hemorrhage, for it was said foehn winds hastened and caused such things.†
Chpt 6.1obstinately = stubbornly unyielding to the wishes of others
- The honest old scholar suffered every abuse imaginable as a result of young Leo's intellectual obstinacy, captiousness, skepticism, contrariness, and cutting dialectical logic.†
Chpt 6.6obstinacy = the trait of being stubborn in not doing what others want
- The wind, by the way, was at his back, and somewhat to one side, so there was little reason to turn around and take it head-on; and this consideration, added to his obstinacy and his basic "Oh, so what!" attitude, only made the crazy fellow push on, dodging the few isolated firs and bearing down on the mountain in the hope of getting beyond it.†
Chpt 6.7
- She had known there was something rotten about the whole affair from the first and could only hope that Ziemssen's obstinacy had not turned it putrid—"putrid," she said, in her infinite vulgarity.†
Chpt 6.8
- He stared out the dormer window; a certain obstinacy could be read in his ordinary, blue eyes.†
Chpt 6.8
- Hans Castorp's attention had been directed only partly to the conversation, for he was preoccupied with the presence of a warrior, of a person who was the representative of genuine nobility, or rather with the new look in that person's eyes, and he flinched at Herr Settembrini's last words, sensing that they had been addressed to him and demanded an answer; but then he merely made the same face he had made the day Settembrini had solemnly tried to force him to decide between "East and West"—a face, that is, full of reservations and obstinacy—and said nothing.†
Chpt 6.8
- I'm intrigued by its fickle tricks, the way it can toady up to you and then turn incredibly obstinate.†
Chpt 7.6
Definition:
stubbornly not doing what others want