What's the difference between cussedness and obstinacy?
Cussedness
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Brian Clough – "Old Big 'Ead" – turned arrogance and cussedness into a way to win.
(2) His greatness did without Olivier's showmanship, Ralph Richardson's abandoned cussedness or Gielgud's resonant lyricism.
(3) The first is that Google's cheery technological determinism may be obstructed by human cussedness, as manifested in a refusal to trust the technology.
Obstinacy
Definition:
(n.) A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose, or system; unyielding disposition; stubborness; pertinacity; persistency; contumacy.
(n.) The quality or state of being difficult to remedy, relieve, or subdue; as, the obstinacy of a disease or evil.
Example Sentences:
(1) The individual number of pathological scores showed a decrease already within the first treatment week and a further decrease by the end of the trial, especially for the items of capriciousness, obstinacy, irritability and restlessness.
(2) Early on in the sessions for Five Leaves Left, Boyd discovered that Drake's silence served at times to conceal his deep-rooted obstinacy.
(3) Rather than obstinacy, we were suddenly met with a guarded kind of openness.
(4) From the early 1980s onwards, Margaret Thatcher and her governments embedded a new notion in the collective Tory mind, and British politics more widely: that politicians should be judged by their radicalism and obstinacy.
(5) I finally pull the tire off, and I look at the inside of the tire, and it reads: ‘Matsumoto Tire Company – We Are Obstinacy!’” I mention the tire, because it illuminates the experience of reading Paul Ryan’s brand-new don’t-call-it-a-campaign book, The Way Forward: an hours-long ordeal with an epistemically locked-shut Mad Libs thesaurus accident that ultimately says “screw you” as sunnily as possible.
(6) After all, unchecked obstinacy in the face of demands for change risks bringing down not just individual pillars of the establishment, but the entire system of power with them.
(7) The decline in shipbuilding here had its roots in poor management stretching back to the late 19th century, trade union obstinacy, and the rise after two world wars of foreign rivals who could produce much bigger ships more efficiently.
(8) A tireless fighter against apartheid, he defeated it with his courage, his obstinacy and his perseverance.
(9) Several US officials involved in Guantánamo issues saw Kelly’s hand in Pentagon obstinacy toward Obama’s plan to close the detention facility.
(10) "The reason why Osborne and Cable are tinkering at the edges and pressing the governor to take action is because their own political obstinacy and vanity is getting in the way of the need for fiscal action.
(11) Sharif's obstinacy in the face of army demands for North Waziristan to be dealt with before summer has exacerbated tensions between Pakistan's civilian and military leaderships, who have clashed over the treason trial of former military ruler Pervez Musharraf.
(12) After Mr Obama’s lofty rhetoric ran up against the immovable obstinacy of an entrenched Republican-majority Congress, America may be ready for leadership by prose rather than through poetry.
(13) His obstinacy did not go down well with the committee, which had after all summoned him to shake an opinion out of him.
(14) The patient's wish or that of his companion are not sufficient, nor the lack of will or obstinacy.
(15) The grassroots movement to break away from Spain has strengthened alongside the obstinacy of the central government: while in 2010 one-fifth of Catalans supported independence, by 2013 the number hovered around half, according to Catalonia’s Centre for Opinion Studies.
(16) The consequences of the UK offering less than permanent protection of all the rights currently enjoyed by EU nationals, however, could lead to reciprocal obstinacy, including the deprivation of the rights of elderly Britons in Spain to free healthcare, one official warned.
(17) But "the impartial – UN operation in Ivory Coast and French – forces did African democracy a great service … by ousting a man who ... would only listen to his own obstinacy," Le Pays continued.
(18) In fact, they are simply imploding under the weight of their own obstinacy.
(19) It is the most egregious in terms of the length of time, concerns about his safety due to [previous] torture and the obstinacy of the Chinese government in refusing to provide any details."
(20) But the chicken-shop phenomenon is also about the glorious obstinacy of teenagers expressing their freedom through what little economic power they have.