obdurate

1 He’s painted as often being difficult and demanding, yet clearly this obdurate artistic vision was what produced such deeply singular music.

2 A few days after the lecture, at the Virginia Dwan Gallery in Los Angeles, he admired a show of Reinhardt’s Black Paintings — those difficult, obdurate, near-monochromatic canvases that require close and prolonged looking.

3 For real strangeness in novels, you usually have to voyage to lands that still tolerate the obdurate, the sleazy, the resentful, the offline and any other attributes presently considered unmarketable.

4 The opening number, “Oh Freedom,” begins as an a cappella spiritual before the piano enters with obdurate clusters of bass notes.

5 Her photograph shows an aged and obdurate man with a tinge of uncertainty in his face.

6 But the mice—with equal and obdurate consistency—had been born with tails perfectly intact, generation upon generation.

7 In some ways it has evolved by becoming more obdurate, by standing still rather than pointlessly moving.

8 DNA, the Sex Pistols and Parliament-Funkadelic, as well as the obdurate, unquantifiable Cleveland group 15 60 75, otherwise known as the Numbers Band.

9 In the face of its many imitators, Polo remains resolute, even obdurate.

10 However, Luther — obdurate and reckless, bilious and doctrinaire — eventually swamps the book, as he eventually swamped the urbane and ironic man of letters.

11 Even with the musical and choreographic edits that have tightened up the Royal Ballet's revival, Pagodas remains an obdurate challenge.

12 Anything that might remind a person of the obdurate passage of time.

13 “If, in spite of all your efforts,” the cable to the ambassador read, “Diem remains obdurate and refuses, then we must face the possibility that Diem himself cannot be preserved.”

14 A third group were obdurate and still wanted to wait and see.

第三部分人则是顽固地还要等着看.

15 “The expressions are hard-edged, the eyes as obdurate as metal,” he wrote.

16 The predestination here is to perennially reckon with unruly and obdurate feeling: people cannot help what moves them, what makes them feel alive.

17 But turning Bush sympathizer felt less like a sign of growth than a desire to be seen as something other than the obdurate loudmouth he’s spent years becoming and rarely regretted.

18 the obdurate refusal of the crotchety old man to let the neighborhood kids retrieve their stray ball from his backyard

19 A third group were obdurate and still wanted to wait and see.

第三部分人则是顽固地还要等着看。

20 For its part, CTNH has been ridiculously obdurate: having said it would not let the name issue stop CTCBN's integration into Euroatlantic organisations, it has done exactly that.

在这一点上，希腊真是过于固执，它曾放言道，不会让名称纠纷阻碍马其顿参与欧洲大西洋一带的组织，但事实它言行不一。

1 冷酷的

flinthearted stonyhearted tough iron bitter marble brutal grim relentless ruthless stony inhuman unrelenting heartless steely unkind cold-blooded inexorable unfeeling remorseless snaky bloody-minded hardhearted uncompassionate ironhearted hard as iron tough as nails hard cool cold steel chill rocky bloodless pitiless hard-hearted unloving dure coldhearted indurate coldblooded marbly marble-hearted dispiteous bleak merciless crass dour frostbitten hardcase hard-bitten kindless ironfisted hardhanded cruelhearted

2 顽固的

donkeyish self-opinioned set contrary rocky stubborn uncompromising heady willful impenetrable inflexible wayward intractable spiky steely obstinate headstrong opinionated unrepentant strong-willed inveterate ornery flinty impenitent balky hidebound stiff-necked mulish fusty pigheaded hardheaded wrongheaded bullheaded blockish self-opinionated strong-headed ropeable hard-set hard-mouthed unpliable notionate hard as flint tough die-hard perverse tenacious unyielding dogged untoward asinine restive illiberal churlish strong-minded contumacious bolshy cussed thrawn bigoted unshakeable unbending pig-headed pertinacious unpersuadable diehard difficult stiff sticky persistent rigid bullish rebellious crusty bigot deep-seated hard-nosed wrong-headed hard-headed hard-shell indurate standpat thrawart stiff-hearted hard-nose hard-grained hardmouthed down pragmatic adamant unregenerate rock-ribbed piggish bloody-minded stouthearted brassbound opinionative unpliant

3 铁石心肠的

steel

4 铁石心肠

steel obduracy as tough as nails

5 执迷不悟

bigoted bigotry

6 难办的

tricky

7 固执的

fixed stubborn wilful obstinate asinine self-willed contumacious cussed pigheaded bolshie pertinacious relentless stiff-necked pig-headed set stiff rocky bullish willful insistent dogged lockstep balky mulish piggish renitent rigid unyielding headstrong unbending bullheaded

8 倔强的

perverse wilful obstinate untoward recalcitrant crabbed cross-grained baulky unpersuadable indocile stubborn unbending intractable strong-willed

9 固执

fixed stubborn wilful obstinate asinine self-willed contumacious cussed pigheaded bolshie pertinacious obstinacy relentless stiff-necked pig-headed pig-headedly obduracy self-will pig-headedness set stiff rocky bullish willful insistent dogged implacable lockstep balky mulish piggish renitent persistence insistence stick insist rigid unyielding headstrong unbending bullheaded

10 顽固不化

invincible hard-core impregnable inveterate dyed-in-the-wool obduracy

11 执拗的

self-opinioned difficult urgent sour perverse tenacious dour self-willed self-opinionated contrary mulish cussed stubborn adamant bigoted wilful froward cross-grained thrawn obstinate ornery stiff crusty refractory bigot crabby crabbed balky cobby self-will bullet-headed thrawart missionary thwart rusty willful intractable unrepentant recalcitrant unregenerate pertinacious stouthearted contrarious uncomplying

12 冷酷

flinthearted stonyhearted tough iron bitter marble brutal grim relentless ruthless stony inhuman unrelenting heartless steely unkind cold-blooded inexorable unfeeling remorseless snaky bloody-minded hardhearted uncompassionate ironhearted callously frostily unfeelingly heart induration grimness obduracy frostiness rockiness steel petrify with an iron hand hard as iron tough as nails hard cool cold chill rocky bloodless pitiless hard-hearted unloving dure coldhearted indurate coldblooded marbly marble-hearted dispiteous unkindly frost cruelty impenetrability ossify bleak merciless crass dour frostbitten hardcase hard-bitten kindless ironfisted hardhanded cruelhearted hardness

13 倔强

perverse wilful obstinate untoward recalcitrant crabbed cross-grained baulky unpersuadable indocile a will of own stubborn intractable strong-willed obstinacy obduracy

14 顽固

donkeyish self-opinioned set contrary rocky stubborn uncompromising heady willful impenetrable inflexible wayward intractable spiky steely obstinate headstrong opinionated unrepentant strong-willed inveterate ornery flinty impenitent balky hidebound stiff-necked mulish fusty pigheaded hardheaded wrongheaded bullheaded blockish self-opinionated strong-headed ropeable hard-set hard-mouthed unpliable notionate stubbornly doggedly stiffly toughly cussedly stiffness bigotry stubbornness obstinacy doggedness pertinacity obduracy cussedness pigheadedness headiness impenitence stiffen toughen petrify hard as flint as stubborn as a mule tough die-hard perverse tenacious unyielding dogged untoward asinine restive illiberal churlish strong-minded contumacious bolshy harden dig heel's in cussed thrawn bigoted unshakeable unbending pig-headed pertinacious unpersuadable diehard difficult stiff sticky persistent rigid bullish rebellious crusty bigot deep-seated hard-nosed wrong-headed hard-headed hard-shell indurate standpat refractorily frozen crustily stick-to-itiveness rabidity rabidness obstinateness bilboism persistence rigidity tenacity persistency induration petrifaction crustiness rigidify ossify thrawart stiff-hearted hard-nose hard-grained hardmouthed down pragmatic adamant unregenerate rock-ribbed piggish bloody-minded stouthearted brassbound opinionative unpliant self-will inveteracy unrepentance calcify with stiff neck

15 执迷不悟的

bigoted

16 顽固不化的

invincible hard-core impregnable inveterate dyed-in-the-wool

17 刚愎自用的

headstrong

18 执拗

self-opinioned difficult urgent sour perverse tenacious dour self-willed self-opinionated contrarily contrariwise crossly pertinaciously cussedly stick-to-it-iveness urgency obduracy cussedness self-will stubborn obstinate mulish be set in your ways ornery cussed perversity contrary stiff crusty refractory bigot crabby crabbed balky cobby bullet-headed refractorily crustily obstinateness bigotry pertinacity crustiness perseveration threap thrawart missionary thwart rusty willful intractable unrepentant recalcitrant unregenerate thrawn pertinacious stouthearted contrarious uncomplying