Adjective : an obdurate sinner. From Dictionary.com.
A dictator who "obdurately" refused to change his ways. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Spock remained obdurately silent, even in the link. From Wordnik.com. [The Price of the Phoenix]
I'm talking about many of the obdurately loyal, the committed. From Wordnik.com. [Nobody To Take The Fall] Reference
When to explain and tease out and when to remain obdurately silent. From Wordnik.com. [gillpolack: On explaining characters] Reference
He turned his forbidding gaze hard and long upon the obdurately silent girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Heretic's Apprentice]
Spain are struggling to create chances and Portugal are defending obdurately. From Wordnik.com. [World Cup 2010: Spain v Portugal - as it happened] Reference
And he suddenly roared obdurately, clinching his fists and waving them in the air. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference
I first read this story while obdurately at the beach with a friend on a cold, wet day. From Wordnik.com. [Sex and/or Mr. Morrison | Miette's Bedtime Story Podcast] Reference
They have obdurately refused to comply by the rule of law which this government says it upholds. From Wordnik.com. [I Have No Idea What Game The Federal Government Is Playing With Abdelrazik « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference
It openly and obdurately does whatever it feels necessary to prop up the Smith regime in Rhodesia. From Wordnik.com. [1. The Work of IDAF] Reference
In his one chance in office he has faced situations and opponents about as obdurately difficult as he is himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of a New City: Toronto, 1834] Reference
Stannall's expression was desperate and his lips, thinned by fatigue to white lines, closed obdurately over his teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Restoree]
"Unfortunately, many of them will be the most obdurately against giving the citizenship away," said Pompeius Rufus, grinning. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Later, back in the penthouse, Penn remembered that the star was obdurately set against her, but was outvoted by him and the two writers. From Wordnik.com. [STAR] Reference
No sooner had the servant gone than Philodamus returned to the dining room, there to continue obdurately refusing to show the Romans his daughter. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
The pompous prats in the FO are not typical of the British people who despite years of anti-Semitic pro-Arab propaganda remain obdurately pro-Israel. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
In fact, there would be stolid German people, notably the older ones, who would obdurately refuse to go, preferring to stay and face the consequences. From Wordnik.com. [First Clash]
War there was bound to be-Italy was not big enough to contain two factions so obdurately opposed to each other-and so unwilling to forgive and forget for the sake of peace. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
For the rest of the drive he sat obdurately silent. From Wordnik.com. [The Lunatic at Large] Reference
But if he obdurately resists change, we need a plan B. From Wordnik.com. [english.chosun.com : Total] Reference
Her own car, meanwhile, obdurately reposed in its garage. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
He obdurately insists they are part and parcel of Israel. From Wordnik.com. [IPS Inter Press Service] Reference
He tried again and again, but my pupils remained obdurately small. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
"It's all the same," continued Novikoff obdurately, in the same tone. From Wordnik.com. [Sanine] Reference
But still she held Mr. Bellingham's arm, obdurately refusing to dance. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Claudius, A True Story] Reference
"It is our only chance," he said obdurately, in answer to her protests. From Wordnik.com. [Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill] Reference
"It's Levy who's spoilt the whole thing," he rejoined obdurately in the end. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Justice Raffles] Reference
Where his own health was concerned he obdurately refused to listen to reason. From Wordnik.com. [Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization] Reference
To go herself would be futile, when he had so obdurately shut his door against her. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Calf] Reference
This third part is a much less obdurately resisting factor: it often ends by giving way. From Wordnik.com. [Pragmatism] Reference
Peggy Lacey was obdurately fixed in her attitude toward the sly suggestion of Skipper John Blue. From Wordnik.com. [Harbor Tales Down North With an Appreciation by Wilfred T. Grenfell, M.D.] Reference
And he seemed to collect himself in his fierceness, and to remain obdurately silent in his anger. From Wordnik.com. [The Fixed Period] Reference
Mrs. Groome alone had set her face obdurately against any change in the personnel of the eighties. From Wordnik.com. [The Sisters-In-Law] Reference
There are towns where the traveller finds the gate obdurately closed between ten o'clock at night and six in the morning. From Wordnik.com. [A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg] Reference
Shut your doors obdurately against the same gentlemen, and they will use all their little diplomacy to effect an entrance. From Wordnik.com. [The Belton Estate] Reference
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