Sentences with word «obstinance»

Lost through obstinance, ecclesiastical communion can be had again through repentance.

On the other hand, there's also a case to be made that Apple's obstinance with its NFC capability is an unfair advantage that it's giving itself, not unlike Google favouring its own services in search results.

It's contradictory advice in some ways, so how can a naturally stubborn entrepreneur learn to draw the line between healthy determination and unproductive obstinance?

Silver remained mindful of their personal priorities, and put his famous obstinance at their disposal.

IndieWire's Eric Kohn calls Plummer a «world - class performer» who is able to endow Getty with a «smarmy obstinance that aligns with the movie's blunt storytelling.»

But with Lady Bird, the 23 - year - old pinwheels gracefully backwards into adolescence, using her expressive baby blues to create a spectrum of teenage contradiction: sarcasm and sincerity, infatuation and heartache, fiery obstinance and radiant empathy.

Burt's bad luck and obstinance leads him to a nursing home gig where he rediscovers the magician who made him into what he is today, Rance Holloway (Arkin), and rediscovers the passion he had as a child.

Possessing a strikingly angular beauty and muted charm, she aptly conveys Lena's voracious intelligence as well as her stubborn obstinance through her dark chocolate eyes.

Wolfgang Tillmans» first Hong Kong exhibition is up at David Zwirner, and includes both older work as well as new photographs related to Tillman's current interest in human obstinance and the devaluation of fact - based information.

Sometimes the old way may be the best, but a solid reasoning behind that way of thought will get you further than sheer obstinance.

Is it even plausible that the church's obstinance and its leaders» stubbornness is tantamount to sacrificing its people?

Augusto César Lendoiro — notorious for his obstinance as the president of Depor — wanted $ 20 million, the full sum of Filipe's release clause.

Obstinance, in any form, could well tip the scales in Democrats» favor particularly with Obama enjoying the benefits of the bully pulpit.

Some early advisers gave up trying to even help him out of exhaustion of his obstinance.

Interactions between the two leads are often humorously contentious, with Hec frustrated by Ricky's obstinance, and Ricky frustrated by Hec's lack of it.

Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role BRYAN CRANSTON, «TRUMBO» Cranston is commandingly eccentric in this take on Hollywood's blacklisting of suspected communists, capturing all of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's bravado and obstinance (even while naked in a bathtub), yet managing to rein in the quirks and outbursts that could have rendered him a caricature.

There are elements of Scarlett O'Hara in Davis» character, her obstinance and resolve occasionally translating as counter-intuitive, especially when she's got Sam Neill's sympathetic, pillow - fighting dandy pining for her from afar, a man willing to accept her for who she is and not who she should be.

There are good ideas out there — google Richard Nash, for example — of making this work with neither bitterness or obstinance.

Last year, we called developer hubris and obstinance the biggest blunder of the year, as we criticized game development and business model decisions in WildStar, Destiny, The Elder Scrolls Online, and ArcheAge.

This obstinance means you don't listen to good advice, and thus, you keep doing the same thing over and over, yielding the same no - results outcome.

All I can say though is that the tenability or the obstinance that prevents you from forgiving and moving on feels even worse.