Modifying Another Word

• so: No one was ever so ready for argument and, I must add, so obstinate and lovable.

• very: Rev. Guest is remembered by the people of New Bradwell as a very obstinate man, a man who was ahead of his time.

• intensely: The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it forces the barbarians ' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate.

• sometimes: PUPPETS: Charlie, a delightful little gray mouse is shy, impulsive and sometimes obstinate.

• quite: They were quite obstinate in their opinions and sneered at my " naïvety " in accepting your bona fides.

• even: And yet the ' friends of the BWC ' have proved themselves a tenacious, even obstinate, bunch of people.

Modifies a noun

• refusal: This spirit seems to have arisen as an obstinate refusal to admit that things were bad.

• resistance: Settlement Of Spartan Affairs At last the obstinate resistance came to an end.

• man: Blair is an obstinate man, clinging to a guitar twanging Christianity in the face of a public opinion.

• defense: His reputation was made by his obstinate defense of the castle of Chinon in 1205.

• people: Hick thinks his proof is adequate but that obstinate people will not accept it as a proof.

• rebellion: Let such a one see that obstinate rebellion against the will of God is damnation to personality.

Used with adjective complement

• remain: When the waiting women enumerate the drawbacks to her position of absolute guilt, she remains obstinate in her conviction of her own responsibility.

• prove: In my experience arguments which are about money usually get solved in the end; it is arguments about principle which prove most obstinate.