Her obdurate demeanor left them no choice but to give up their plan and go home. From LearnThat.org.
The child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : an obdurate sinner. From Dictionary.com.
He also defended his seizure of white-owned farms, saying the program pitted the majority against the white minority he described as obdurate and backed by the British. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Geithner plainly has no patience for what he describes as the obdurate unwillingness of colleagues to subordinate their desire for superficial impact to the larger vision. From Wordnik.com. [Inside Man] Reference
She said the LRC was extremely proud of its achievements with the community that included a victory in the Constitutional Court, against "obdurate" opposition by government. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
George passed from life with the kind of obdurate resistance and strength of spirit with which he had lived. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference
A disbeliever in witchcraft was an 'obdurate sadducee.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference
Ernest was obdurate, threatening to shut her out if she teased. From Wordnik.com. [Chicken Little Jane] Reference
Mr. Burnand, and other mutual friends failed: Sala remained obdurate. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
But perhaps the mysterious beauty may not be so obdurate as you imagined. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery of a Turkish Bath] Reference
She had not even kept her promise to Doctor Ballard to see his obdurate patient. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Richard took a step toward the obdurate little figure, but Warren's voice halted him. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
By moving exhortations to virtue, she softened and converted several obdurate sinners. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March] Reference
Finding the boy thus obdurate, Kano turned the full force of his discontent on Umè-ko. From Wordnik.com. [The Dragon Painter] Reference
Pleasant-Faced Lion remained obdurate and made no sign at all of ever having been alive. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
Then she pleaded, finding him obdurate: "If you won't go for me, then go for your father.". From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
It turns refractory materials and obdurate forces into commodious goods and useful powers. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
But in spite of their entreaties she was obdurate, and going to a clerk in the 25th Reserve. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D.] Reference
This is as if certain obdurate compounds were introduced in the first instance among Chemical. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Thus with obdurate will a man's evaporating substance was patted as firm and solid as possible. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
There are illnesses that could not be vanquished at Asklepios; they are obdurate still at Lourdes. From Wordnik.com. [Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery] Reference
She traded a glance with him before lighting the gas under the frying pan, one obdurate body to another. From Wordnik.com. [Watershed] Reference
Surety in spirit against floundering facades for Faith invigorates mortal hearts with obdurate conviction. From Wordnik.com. [NATURAE] Reference
Mr. Ives has made a special journey to Berlin on behalf of our poor men, but the authorities are obdurate. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
Many of these pipes are sculptured from the most obdurate stones and display great delicacy of workmanship. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Some fully intend to deliver, but find the world obdurate, unwilling to go along with their fine intentions. From Wordnik.com. [Promises, Promises] Reference
But the umpire thus unflatteringly described and assigned was obdurate, the run did not count, and the game went on. From Wordnik.com. [White Ashes] Reference
Yet even after this tribute to her charms, she remained obdurate, and would not grant him the slightest encouragement. From Wordnik.com. [Woman's Work in Music] Reference
But, for once in their acquaintance, Tom was obdurate and would not agree either to Madge's entreaties or to her commands. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Secret] Reference
In all her life Mary had never met a man so obdurate, and, moreover, she felt that he could not be wooed into a good humor. From Wordnik.com. [Riders of the Silences] Reference
These were halcyon days for Paul, for the old man was not long obdurate, and began to halve the delight of his own reading. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
Chios was obdurate, and, when faced by his accusers, and asked to explain his position, he politely, but positively, refused. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
Or, in the worst cases, a crumpled wad of paper with a numbered face and flapping bits of tape ricocheting off an obdurate pane. From Wordnik.com. [Windowers] Reference
Their characters seem to have resembled the metal in which they delighted; their minds and hearts were hard, obdurate, and cruel. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
Surtees, however, remained in obdurate silence, and I am not aware that any edition of the Minstrelsy draws attention to his handiwork. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author] Reference
In disapprobation of his culture he sat stiffly for a moment in tacit and obdurate silence, but with glances down at what was beneath him. From Wordnik.com. [An Apostate: Nawin of Thais] Reference
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