It had taken a real act of will, a high-minded deliberate obdurateness, not to recognize Nate's role.

He constructs in his mind a sense of the overarching power and obdurateness of the 'system'.

Efforts to alter these patterns in the absence of other institutional changes tend to encounter societal obdurateness.

NEW ENGLANDERS are known for their set ways and obdurateness.

There can be, however, just as much obdurateness and ignorance on the part of property owners and users who fail to understand how their proposals may cause actual difficulty to others.

There is an obdurateness of obstinacy against all the men, and the books, and the doctrines, and the precepts, and the practices that are in any way connected with spiritual religion that does not come out even in the obstinate man's family life.