The greater the failures became, the more obstinately his incurable amateurishness came to the fore.
Having shown himself ready to abandon those favourite notions of Frenchmen and Italians, it is a pity he should obstinately retain certain worn-out phrases about the Germans.
Finishing the third revision, he decided the book was ready for publication, but when he attempted to persuade his agents and publishers to print the work, all were obstinately opposed.
He obstinately asserted that he had done the right thing.
Surrounded by a clutch of biologists from the Colorado Division of Wildlife, the young female from Canada remained obstinately curled inside her metal box.
If it had not injured its horns, the ram would have persisted obstinately in butting against the fence, even against the spokes of a wheel until it bled with a fractured skull.
Smith obstinately refused to carry out the order.
But my mother, frightened as she was, would not consent to take a fraction more than was due to her and was obstinately unwilling to be content with less.
I obstinately bite the tight lips to endure the tears.
I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character and acting on the false impressions she cherished.
After nearly five years of obstinately rejecting King Henry VIII's advances, Anne Boleyn finally allowed him to seduce her.
The practical problems Mr Obama inherited in the Middle East have proved obstinately hard to resolve.
And yet our personal limits and doors that remain obstinately closed to us in our lives may be valuable guides to where we might better place our focus.
Their hearts, however, remain obstinately British.
Scarlett nodded obstinately.
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