How To Use pertinacity In A Sentence
- The cue of answer: calm and silent, clearly, strong standpoint, positive pertinacity, kind heart and care about other people, strong adaption and sense of humor, optimism and fraternity.
- Add to this a kind of adhesiveness (we can hardly call it obstinacy or pertinacity) of temper, which can make no allowance for change of circumstances, and we think we have a tolerably clear notion of the causes of General McClellan's disasters. The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
- Under the seal of confession he had been intrusted with a secret to which in his conversations with me he could make only indirect allusions, to bring me to understand that my pertinacity was a crime, and that the only honourable course was to yield. Mauprat
- Page 67 good people of the town, aware of his pertinacity in this particular, had no mind to make points with him, but, on the contrary, rather corroborated him in his dogmatism by an amiable assentation; so that, it is said, he grew daily more peremptory. Rob of the bowl : a legend of St. Inigoe's,
- The heavy jaw and square-cut chin demonstrated rugged pertinacity and indomitability. To The Man on the Trail
- The gravity which Albert applied to court life in the south was applied with equal pertinacity to the serious business of recreation in the north.
- If, in the face of these facts, somebody still insists that the boundaries of the Sikh religion are blurred, it is sheer pertinacity.
- I want no greater proof of the corruption of human nature than the pertinacity with which we seek happiness where happiness cannot be found.
- Soon after, they were attacked by a party of English regulars and militiamen, who drove them into a windmill and two strong stone houses, which they loopholed, and defended themselves with a pertinacity which one would have called heroism, had it been in a better cause. The Englishwoman in America
- Irish volcano consisted of the lake of Killarney, which I naturally conceived her to mean; but, on second thoughts, I divined that she alluded to _Ice_land and to Hecla -- and so it proved, though she sustained her volcanic topography for some time with all the amiable pertinacity of 'the feminie.' Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
