Single-mindedness and determination are admired but shade into bloody-mindedness and obstinacy. |
Only as the strike nears defeat does his obstinacy acquire a more human, faintly heroic quality. |
He hoped his parents would not be difficult for he was not in the mood for their stubborn obstinacy. |
If Richards's film is a tribute to the tenacity of the treasure hunters, its very existence is proof of his dogged obstinacy. |
The other seems to him only an unrighteous actuality or a case of human obstinacy or perversity. |
Notice, though, that unshakeability does not have to equate with stubbornness or obstinacy. |