stubbornness

How To Use stubbornness In A Sentence

• Try to find a way to turn her stubbornness from a weakness to a strength.
• From then - thanks to the stubbornness of the Queen's back line - the match seemed to fizzle out, and by the end the scoreline probably flattered the victors.
• Also, to refuse to fold when a player knows that he or she is beat is stubbornness, not poker.
• Elsinore, this time due to me and my own stubbornness, is rolling in the wind and heading nowhere in a light breeze at the rate of nothing but driftage per hour. CHAPTER XLVI
• I couldn't tell if his refusal to talk was simple stubbornness.
• A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country. Edgar Watson Howe 
• Power is hierarchical; the rebel challenges authority, presumes to be the defiant equal of his creator or of his king, and is convinced that his stubbornness will redeem him.
• It is he that makes the sinner see all the deformity and filthiness that is within; it is he that pulleth off all the sinner's rags, and makes him see his naked and wretched condition; it is he that shows us the blindness of the mind, the stubbornness of the will, the disorderedness of the affections, the searedness of the conscience, the plague of our hearts, and the sin of our natures, and therein the desperateness of our state. The Almost Christian Discovered; or, the False Professor Tried and Cast.
• Trying to approach this gentle and mannerly retired professor about what seems to be going wrong, Miller encounters the deep stubbornness at the core of his being.
• But his stubbornness during the last months of the war caused resentment after the war and some obloquy.