All 4 Uses of
obstinate
in
The Plague
- Thus the only way of escaping from that intolerable leisure was to set the trains running again in one's imagination and in filling the silence with the fancied tinkle of a doorbell, in practice obstinately mute.†
Part 2
- And, as it so happens, what has yet to lie recorded before coming to the culmination, during the period when the plague was gathering all its forces to fling them at the town and lay it waste, is the long, heartrendingly monotonous struggle put up by some obstinate people like Rambert to recover their lost happiness and to balk the plague of that part of themselves which they were ready to defend in the last ditch.†
Part 2
- The look of brooding obstinacy that Rambert so often had came back to his face, and he climbed again onto his stool.†
Part 2
- Yes, I chose to be blindly obstinate, pending the day when I could see my way more clearly.†
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Definition:
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(obstinate) stubbornly not doing what others want