| Ye are an unruly obstinate people, whose hearts are unreformed and uncircumcised. |
| He was self-willed, obstinate, aggressive, vindictive, beset by feelings of inferiority, and yet firmly convinced of his own abilities. |
| They seem to you inert, flabby, weakly envious, foolishly obstinate, impiously mutinous, and many other things. |
| It may be possible to chip away at recalcitrant citizens by portraying the obstinate allies as mischievous or worse. |
| They did not like being bested, but it was precisely his obstinate redamancy that kept them going in all its forms. |
| The outcome also satisfied the public sense of outrage at an obstinate governmental bureaucracy and at an injustice eventually righted. |
