How to Use obdurate in a Sentence

obdurate

adjective

• He is known for his obdurate determination.
• This is not to say that the US agriculture sector is no longer plagued by obdurate problems.
  — Raghav Simha, Quartz India, 17 Feb. 2021
• The chorus sings of the Plague of Thebes over five darkly screaming chords in the key of B-flat minor, with an obdurate bass line grating against the upper harmonies.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 21 June 2021
• Her photograph shows an aged and obdurate man with a tinge of uncertainty in his face.
  — Philip Gefter, The New Yorker, 12 Feb. 2017
• On Friday, the Huskies will face Notre Dame (33-3), a familiar and obdurate opponent.
  — Jeré Longman, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2018
• Those are just the most obdurate employers, says David Woods, the union’s secretary-treasurer.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2022
• Yet Mr Kurz’s obdurate stance on borders is now conventional wisdom across the EU.
  — The Economist, 19 Oct. 2017
• Indeed, Messi thought that was his team's problem as Argentina struggled to find a way through Mexico's obdurate defense in the first hour of the match.
  — Steve Douglas, ajc, 27 Nov. 2022
• By the summer of 1776, all but the most obdurate loyalists on the American continent knew that all-out war between Britain and the American Colonies had arrived.
  — Steve Donoghue, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2021
• Now the territory’s chief executive, Carrie Lam, obdurate for weeks in the face of the protesters’ demands, has changed her tune.
  — The Economist, 5 Sep. 2019
• Concrete represents one of the world’s most obdurate carbon problems.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022
• To judge, though, by Price’s remarks to the Boston press corps Saturday night, his first since the Eckersley story came to light, he is simply entitled, thick and obdurate.
  — Jack Dickey, SI.com, 30 July 2017
• Again, the works’ key success is formal, as an effect of obdurate density and jagged animation.
  — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2020
• This week’s roundup of progress stories includes evidence that the needle can move on even the most obdurate problems, from sewage pollution to human trafficking.
  — Lindsey McGinnis, The Christian Science Monitor, 31 Mar. 2021
• In Cleveland, Jordano caught something else —an obdurate grit and a restrained dignity amid poverty and decline.
  — Steven Litt, cleveland, 27 Sep. 2020
• Barcelona were probing at Atletico's obdurate defence, and having drawn a stretching save from Oblak moments earlier, Suarez met a cross with towering header from close range to level the scores in the 82nd minute.
  — SI.com, 14 Oct. 2017
• But there is no moment, and Updike the novelist recognizes that there is something obdurate about the historical record.
  — WSJ, 13 Oct. 2017
• She was largely paralyzed from the neck down but just as obdurate as ever, wanting Sri to be the one to feed her, administer her fentanyl patch, bathe her and change her diaper, even though Sri had hired a home health aide to help.
  — Noy Thrupkaew, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2021
• But can empathy wholly compensate for an ingrained point of view, a nexus of obdurate personal bias and cherished belief?
  — Adam Begley, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2022
• By 1969 frustration had reached a critical level as the crackdown by police and the Army intensified, and hopes for change were thwarted by an obdurate establishment.
  — Peter Keough, BostonGlobe.com, 27 June 2019
• These obdurate materials point to truths that are absolute.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 2 Sep. 2017
• But there is a special satisfaction in what appears to be Giuliani’s obdurate inability to refrain from this type of behavior.
  — Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2019
• But with health-care reform at the top of the agenda and an obdurate Republican party in opposition, the best Congress could do was patch a few gaping holes and add some embellishments to the Rube Goldberg-like construction already in place.
  — Diana B. Henriques, The Atlantic, 19 Sep. 2017
• Erdogan’s most hardcore advocates brushed off the losses in big cities, insisting that the slim margin was due to campaign blunders or the obdurate views of opposition party voters.
  — Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 4 May 2017
• Such reluctance to take nuclear weapons off the table mistakes an obdurate lack of imagination for principle.
  — Andre Pagliarini, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2021
• Her resistance to a unifying style of painting, her enduring reputation not as an artist but as the wife of Jackson Pollock, and the obdurate sexism of the art establishment, have all contributed to her work being sidelined.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 13 June 2019
• Still, there's little evidence that the President cared about much more than photo ops -- his administration did none of the exhausting leg work required for even minor breakthroughs with obdurate diplomats from Pyongyang.
  — Stephen Collinson With Caitlin Hu, CNN, 17 June 2020
• Ink and paint veer between obdurate opacity and delicate transparency.
  — New York Times, 19 Aug. 2021
• Imposter syndrome is a phenomenon that happens inside your head, often accompanied by narration by a rather obdurate inner voice.
  — Gary Crotaz, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
• Were other international trade negotiations to be put back because of the virus — for example those being conducted between London and Washington — Britain’s government could start to look obdurate about the Brexit talks.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2020

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