All 5 Uses of
obstinate
in
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- He merely wanted to prove it, historically, mathematically, to his converts,—poor obstinate converts, so slow to believe that their pains were inserted into their lives for their own good.†
Chpt 1
- She hurled herself against the obstinacy of her time in her desire to attach a little dignity to women.†
Chpt 2
- Such persons are raised up in every age; they obstinately insist on transporting their grains of wheat and they derive a certain exhilaration from the sneers of the bystanders.†
Chpt 2
- Even then, even then, there remained in his heart an obstinate nerve insisting that at least St. Francis would not utterly have condemned him,
Chpt 5 *obstinate = stubbornly unyielding
- And then the whole tide of Camila's long despair, her lonely obstinate despair since her girlhood, found its rest on that dusty friendly lap among Sister Juana's fountains and roses.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(obstinate) stubbornly not doing what others want