Obdurate used in a sentence

Obdurate in a sentence as an adjective

-- to lay open a man's back in answer to his crimes, and stretch his neck should he prove obdurate?

Nah, these sorts of folks are far too obdurate and prideful to ever willingly admit defeat.

It's nice to have the luxury to have a PR languish because of obdurate code reviewers.

Not having Internet is a very obdurate way of approaching this, in my opinion.

An obdurate admin informs everyone that D-Link decided it wasn't needed as a feature, so they removed it.

This reminds me of a famously obtuse and obdurate boss who asked for things that were utterly impossible.

The meaning of words comes from their usage and the quote you referred to seems like someone being intentionally obdurate to linguistic changes.

At some point, if the shortage was so bad and so obdurate as to be beyond all capability to correct, then we might expect the pace of hiring to slow.

How many different narratives do i need to construct in order to get buy-in for something that's rigorously verified and people are simply obdurate with respect to?

Does anyone here do this?When I was involved in student government in college I successfully pulled off a stunt similar to this against an obdurate administration.

Rather than stubborn or obstinate, obdurate specifically means an unwillingness to alter one's position in the face of valid argument.

"...derail meaningful discussion..." Oh. Who's being dismissive, Kay?You refuse to address the parent's arguments on their own terms, purposefully reading them in as obdurate a manner as possible, completely failing to engage them, and then blame the parent's "dismissive language".

So I can defgeneric extravagant-imperial-licentiousness:freeze and then define methods for it on all sorts of types, and it won't clash with someone else's jawbreakingly-simplistic-obdurate-numbness:freeze method.

Have fun with a long sentence:"Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to view, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of temperature reveals, what ancient and obdurate oaks are uprooted in us by the act of sickness, how we go down into the pit of death and feel the water of annihilation close above our heads and wake thinking to find ourselves in the presence of the angels and harpers when we have a tooth out and come to the surface in the dentist’s arm-chair and confuse his “Rinse the Mouth —- rinse the mouth” with the greeting of the Deity stooping from the floor of Heaven to welcome us – when we think of this, as we are frequently forced to think of it, it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the prime themes of literature.