How to Use obstinacy in a Sentence

obstinacy

noun

• López Obrador is known for his obstinacy and has taken certain pride in it at times.
  — Star Tribune, 28 Jan. 2021
• Mr Sánchez got to the Moncloa palace through a mixture of obstinacy and daring, and by tacking left.
  — The Economist, 19 Sep. 2019
• But part of it is also due to the apparent obstinacy of Sherman et al.
  — Jay Cost, National Review, 21 Mar. 2021
• Trump’s obstinacy—and his lawyers’ efforts to soothe that psychic pain—will likely fail to fill the gnawing void within him.
  — Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2020
• What’s worse, this back-and-forth or the obstinacy that has derailed other rivalries from picking back up?
  — Joan Niesen, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2019
• The [local] commander was deeply impressed by my obstinacy, and wanted to help me.
  — Carolyn Harris, Smithsonian, 28 Apr. 2017
• Seeing it as a family-unit issue — yours to engage with — might have been fine, but your husband's obstinacy ruled that out.
  — Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2022
• Nunberg’s sheer obstinacy—who wouldn’t spend 80 hours going through emails to avoid going to jail?—can only be marveled at.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 6 Mar. 2018
• Yet Scott focusses with narrow-minded obstinacy on the troubles at hand, and the movie that results feels like a true-crime TV miniseries sliced and diced to feature length.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• The Storkels’ dark romp is a tragi-comedy about the limits of free enterprise and the obstinacy of an eccentric genius.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2022
• His obstinacy helped the island realm survive the decades-long struggle with France but worked much less well during the unpleasantness with the American colonies.
  — Washington Post, 17 Dec. 2021
• Aquarian obstinacy stems from strong, righteous conviction, and it's quelled as soon as an Aquarius gets the chance to enact change.
  — Aliza Kelly Faragher, Allure, 31 July 2020
• Allowed themselves to get flustered by their children’s obstinacy, throwing up their hands, yelling.
  — Danielle Lindemann, The Atlantic, 13 Feb. 2022
• One possible explanation for the obstinacy is the fact that selling the company to his sons would require an appraisal of the company.
  — Sheelah Kolhatkar, The New Yorker, 12 Jan. 2017
• Now that Democrats have taken back Congress and the White House, this obstinacy is either stupid or purposefully malicious.
  — al, 13 Feb. 2021
• The whole case will, in my opinion, remain immortal in the classics of crime as the supreme example of official incompetence and obstinacy.
  — Sarah Weinman, The New Republic, 14 June 2018
• Paramedics, nonprofits, neighbors and Adult Protective Services came and went, some genuinely there to help and some who just checked the box and moved on when confronted by Poldi’s obstinacy.
  — Dallas News, 18 Aug. 2022
• Such, however, is humanity’s obstinacy that, so far, the second set of minds persist in carrying on with their own thoughts.
  — Katherine A. Powers, WSJ, 4 June 2021
• We're told by a former colleague that Davis could be driven by anxiety in meetings, and the producer David Foster gets in a shot about his obstinacy on the music's nitty gritty.
  — Steven Zeitchik, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2017
• Inflation in the eurozone is running at 8.1% with no sign of slowing, but give the European Central Bank credit for obstinacy.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 9 June 2022
• Means, who was serving in the state legislature at the time, recalled another moment when his friend's obstinacy surfaced.
  — Amy Yurkanin, AL.com, 8 June 2017
• It’s hard to see the utility even if the staffer leaked out of sheer horror or concern; Trump’s track record suggests that exposing him through leaks is perhaps more likely to trigger paranoia and obstinacy than persuade him to change tack.
  — Nicholas Zimmerman, Daily Intelligencer, 16 May 2018
• Fear that Congress might lack the votes to pay interest on the debt or repay principal, due to southern obstinacy, led to the addition of an obscure clause to the 14th amendment preventing this from happening.
  — Bruce Bartlett, The New Republic, 27 July 2021
• Still, misinformation has been powerful, and fear and doubt have hardened into obstinacy for many of the vaccine refusers.
  — Sarah Maslin Nir, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2021
• There is a hardiness verging on obstinacy on display among residents who have survived the war sheltering in their basements and cellars.
  — Carlotta Gall Ivor Prickett, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2022
• The increasing obstinacy of the GOP House caucus, which is under the thumb of a right-wing extremist cadre, has prompted a reconsideration of the legality of the debt ceiling itself.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 15 May 2023
• In their view, the obstinacy of the unvaccinated minority has caused suffering for all.
  — Eliza Fawcett and Alex Putterman, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Sep. 2021
• Gilbert’s obstinacy helped reveal the existence of a murderer preying on South Shore prostitutes.
  — Noel Murray, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2020
• Just as abuse victims are often ignored unless there’s a photo or video of their trauma, Rubiales’ crudeness and obstinacy has swung public opinion in favor of the Spanish players and, by extension, other women in the game.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 25 Aug. 2023
• Dulles’s obstinacy meant that Downey became the longest-serving American prisoner of war in history.
  — Jane Perlez, Foreign Affairs, 28 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024