pigheadedness

He was beginning to annoy her again with his pigheadedness.

At that point something (call it will, or sheer pigheadedness) took control.

"Three cheers for your pigheadedness," one of the brothers called to him.

She called her position in 1959 "ideological dogmatism and pigheadedness."

It's really a bit of pigheadedness - there have been Scottish coaches in charge for years.

It's no longer your own career you're destroying with your pigheadedness.

"It's unfortunate when a citizen comes to this because of the pigheadedness of the city officials."

Since it is two-thirds alcohol and one-third pigheadedness talking, I shall refrain.

She possessed a keen mind and the kind of determination that sometimes bordered on pigheadedness.

I have convicted you of error at least half a dozen times, and not to confess it is mere pigheadedness.

Or perhaps it's just what my midwestern mother used to call "pigheadedness to the nth."

Part of him had wanted to strike back, if only because of her pigheadedness, but ultimately he could not and did not.

Margaret ignored the offer out of sheer pigheadedness.

"If it weren't for their demon-damned pigheadedness, we'd be doing well.

No, more than pigheadedness these days.

Finding all this out was sheer luck and perseverance and pigheadedness."

No one but Garner, whose pigheadedness is meant to charm, would mistake this blatant love object for the killer.

It is easy to assume (as some politicians have done) that the mistakes were simply due to professional bungling or individual pigheadedness.

You inherited more than the Otori look; you have their pigheadedness too.

It has to do with the pigheadedness of the Bush team and the softheadedness of many allies.

His open palm slashed through the empty air, as if waving away forty thousand years of human pigheadedness and strife.

Ardis was not happy with Corey's pigheadedness.

Carl felt a flare of anger at the pigheadedness Malzone was describing.

It is possible he has learned his lesson and is now attempting to recoup from his pigheadedness.