Adjective : an obdurate sinner. From Dictionary.com.
Such obdurateness, truculence and refusal to accept reality is to be applauded. From Wordnik.com. [The Summer of Our Discontent] Reference
For it is only by many acts of attention and even of subservience that the suitor's relatives break down the obdurateness of the fiancé's relatives and make them relax the severity of their original demands. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Mr. Hard-Heart, thou art here indicted by the name of Hard-Heart (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul), for that thou didst most desperately and wickedly possess the town of Mansoul with impenitency and obdurateness; and didst keep them from remorse and sorrow for their evils, all the time of their apostasy from and rebellion against the blessed King Shaddai. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy War] Reference
George's obdurateness, coming when she was most in need of kisses, hurt her. From Wordnik.com. [Once Aboard the Lugger] Reference
Heart, (an intruder upon the town of Mansoul,) for that thou didst most desperately and wickedly possess the town of Mansoul with impenitency and obdurateness; and didst keep them from remorse and sorrow for their evils, all the time of their apostacy from and rebellion against the blessed King Shaddai. From Wordnik.com. [The Holy war, made by King Shaddai upon Diabolus, for the regaining of the metropolis of the world; or, the losing and taking again of the town of Mansoul] Reference
Somalia can be added to the expanding list of US fiascos when it is confronted with so-called “Islamist†movements: Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, and even Lebanon†"situations exacerbated by a myopic focus on the vague objectives of the “War on Terror. †In each of these cases, the US has shown remarkable obdurateness in the consistently narrow range of policy options it has employed, attempting to bludgeon the undesired organizations out of existence without addressing the underlying causes for their continued perseverance. From Wordnik.com. [[unknown placeholder $my.siteName$]] Reference
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