obstinacies
- plural of obstinacy.
Example Sentences
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The play itself is full of the standard details and recognitions pf marriage: its conversational small change and domestic small changes, its emotional freezing and boiling points, male obstinacies and female whims.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was very much of a boy at heart, despite his forty odd years, and the quaint obstinacies of his gardener amused him too much to call for any serious remonstrance.
From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie
I have my obstinacies as mulish as other people's.
From The Mountebank by Locke, William John
He was full of tricks and contradictions, obstinacies and tendernesses, this Punch-like old gentleman with the head of Shakespeare.
From The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel by Dawson, Coningsby
But with all his high spiritual aim, he was essentially human, and pleasantly conscious of his own failings and obstinacies.
From God's Good Man by Corelli, Marie
