(n.) The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy.
Example Sentences:
(1) While victory may not be at hand, the separatists are gaining in confidence as their ranks continue to grow, helped by the obduracy of the Madrid government, which refuses to discuss the issue.
(2) As the Republican congressman Marlin Stutzman pointed out in a particularly candid moment 18 months ago, when Republican obduracy caused a government shutdown, “We have to get something out of this.
(3) Such obduracy is as depressing as it is predictable.
(4) Trump’s obduracy would be consequential in the sense that it would become harder for any prime minister to build a domestic constituency to do America a “favour” which plays negatively in the Australian political context.
(5) The reasons for its obduracy are presumably that it saw a concession on this issue as a precedent for other compromises in the future which it would not wish to make.
(6) They are also negotiating the obduracy and capriciousness of a government whose permission was, until recently, required for every aspect of aid operations.
(7) He had a sneaking regard for those twins of obduracy, Chuck Wepner and George Chuvalo.
(8) Cabaye's removal of those gloves appeared suitably emblematic as Pardew's 4-2-3-1 formation seized up in the face of Stoke's amalgam of streetwise obduracy and increasingly fluid passing and movement.
(9) But the arrival of the Hutton report gives them a chance to draw back from obduracy.
(10) Some campaigners gravely warned the talks were about to fail, while others criticised the obduracy of participants who refused to budge from pre-set positions.
(11) His glass eye and half-frozen features proclaimed his obduracy before he opened his mouth to make history - by defying it for an unlikely decade and a half.
Petrification
Definition:
(n.) See Petrifaction.
(n.) Fig.: Obduracy; callousness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cholesterosis of the gallbladder ist a reversible process, the petrification of cholesterol polyps is repeated observed.
(2) 12 of 16 patients demonstrated changes which were characteristic for hypocorticism: in 4 patients (no signs of tuberculous involvement of the adrenals) a decrease in their sizes with the preserved regular shape was noted, in 8 patients (with clinicolaboratory findings of tuberculous involvement) enlarged sizes, bilateral deformity of the contours and the presence of petrificates were detected.
(3) Changes in the brain matter were detected in 13 of these 15 patients: foreign bodies (2 cases), meningeal cerebral cicatrices (5), dilatation of the ventricular system (4), petrificates in the brain matter (1), atrophic changes of the cerebral cortex (1).
(4) The formerly feared "linear scar petrification," usual after use of Teflon felt, was absent.