Perhaps he was in danger of acting from obstinacy; perhaps it was his duty to succumb.
All the obstinacy and defiance of his nature, driven out of their old channel, found a vent for themselves in the immediate formation of plans by which he would meet his difficulties, and remain Mr Tulliver of Dorlcote Mill in spite of them.
This struck Mr Stelling as something more than natural stupidity; he suspected obstinacy, or at any rate indifference, and lectured Tom severely on his want of thorough application.
But he not only dreaded the effect of such extremities on their mutual life—he had a growing dread of Rosamond's quiet elusive obstinacy, which would not allow any assertion of power to be final; and again, she had touched him in a spot of keenest feeling by implying that she had been deluded with a false vision of happiness in marrying him.
Rosamond had that victorious obstinacy which never wastes its energy in impetuous resistance.
Brooke, persisting as quietly as if he were only discussing the nature of last year's weather, and nodding at the end with his usual amenity, was an exasperating form of obstinacy.
"There's such an odd mixture of obstinacy and changeableness in Brooke.
Rosamond, examining some muslin-work, listened in silence, and at the end gave a certain turn of her graceful neck, of which only long experience could teach you that it meant perfect obstinacy.
" "She has obstinacy and pride enough to serve instead of love, now she has married him," said Will to himself.
He would never have contradicted her, and when a woman is not contradicted, she has no motive for obstinacy in her absurdities.
Tough Bill had no patience with an obstinacy which could only result in loss to himself, and on the last occasion he flung both Strickland and Captain Nichols out of his house without more ado.
Oh, he had been happy during these years, because it was not in him to be unhappy; besides, how many interests life had had to offer him, how many friends, how much success, how many women only too willing to help him to blot out the thought of the altered, petrified, pitiful little wife at home who wouldn't spend his money, who was appalled by his books, who drifted away and away from him, and always if he tried to have it out with her asked him with patient obstinacy what he thought the things
Arbuthnot offered her macaroons—pressed them on her with an odd assiduousness, almost with obstinacy.
Finding himself up against an unsuspected, shocking rock of obstinacy in her, he then declined to believe she had been invited to Italy at all.
I put down my dignity,personality and obstinacy for the sake of you who I am unable to put down.
And thou didst it of thine obstinacy.
Christopher Reeve The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one comes from a strong will; and the other from a strong won't.
I felt provoked by her obstinacy, but to excuse her to myself as far as I could, I suggested that perhaps she had never been used to eat in the company of men, and that her family might have taught her that she ought to behave prudently and discreetly in the presence of her husband.
And one day his mother's new silk dress suffered from his obstinacy and naughtiness.
