Sentences with word «obduracy»

In this late hour amid the firestorms of history, human obduracy remains as Cheever's final hope for quenching the flames which would consume us.

«Radiant obduracy,» yes, there's a fruit of the Spirit, or at least of the Faith.

The Prime Minister, in this reading, meant to reveal to his fellow countrymen» especially those on the left» the depth of Arab obduracy and thus rid them of their illusions that a peace that does not rob Israel of its security, indeed of its very existence, can be had.

But true or false, its believability only underscores the Yoruba obduracy against fallen heroes, particularly when accused of venality and abject lack of character.

I would say incremental obduracy would be the best way to go, get us the best deal and (if you are interested...) would reflect the broadly Euro - sceptic but small c Conservative views of the British.

You can not sue an experiment — although it might be fun to try — copyright has not been breached, damages are difficult to prove and little can be done in the face of manifest obduracy and evasiveness.

This is McDormand's greatest performance since Fargo, a remarkable portrait of obduracy indifferent to consequences.

In a statement the NAHT said: «We believe that the system is simply being maintained through political obduracy and that there are better ways to gain a broad picture of primary education in England.

And they highlight China's obduracy in the Copenhagen negotiations as evidence that other countries will not cooperate.

The Galaxy S7 Active maintains the digital camouflage pattern on the back we saw on the Galaxy S6 Active, but Samsung's obduracy on design between the S6 and S7 has wavered with the S7 Active.

Claudel's obduracy: New Criterion, September 2011.

Whereas conventional Christian apologists often cast theological stones at the obduracy of atheists and materialists, Tolkien and Chesterton answer them with Dwarves and Ents, with Innocent Smith and Father Brown.

For all our obduracy, Cheever knows that we remain but frail constructions of time and will.

But any sense of the obduracy of human sin is lost in the expectation that fully mature, covenantally empowered humans can bring God's creation to redemptive perfection.

The tragic shooting of Louis Sisler, the association's Washington lobbyist, a few weeks after Mrs. King's assassination is a sad and ironic monument to the association's obduracy.

Vorm won his first half battle with Yaya Toure and Dzeko denying them any number of times in a splendid first half display of obduracy and when he was beaten his bar came to the rescue rattled as it was by both Silva and Barry.

The obduracy of the Labour old guard in the electoral reform battle was as damaging as the jibes of the Conservatives.

Taking humble materials and found objects, he coated them in chalky white gesso, producing totemic sculptures possessed of an almost archeological beauty, and with a refined play between fragility and obduracy, ancient and modern, epic and everyday.

I say «remarkably» because only an artist with the obduracy of a Zen ox could withstand the art world pressure against doing more than one thing.

Were this case not about an utterly «unimpeachable father» but a dad less saintly, more prone to human failings, one wonders whether the implacably hostile mother's obduracy would countenance judicial opprobrium at all?