stubborn

But what both men had in common was a streak of rugged individualism, stubbornness, and personal vision.

“The Ladies Who Lunch,” an ode to jaded Manhattanites, stubbornness, and vodka stingers, became one of her two signature songs.

Here he finds the ground prepared for the anti-semitic attack on rigidity, stubbornness, inflexibility as Jewish qualities.

He saw no virtue in stubbornness, and he could never have taken pleasure in the refusal to act on something.

With his trademark stubbornness, Bernhard rewrites history to suit his story.

Had that ugliness and stubbornness been taken out of your heart, you would have been spared much suffering.

"You are all that I would have you," she answered him, and in his mind he almost cursed her stubbornness, her want of reason.

Just this morning, however, the fact of Cash's stubbornness in keeping to his own side of the line irritated Bud.

After her first startled glance toward Bristow she stood with her head lowered and with an expression of sulky stubbornness.

Only a few of the people who use this expression can have had any experience of the stubbornness of mules.