Rather, it wanted to be obdurately local, fixing the problems created by the commercial temper of Jakarta’s art scene: the pressures to sell work, the tedium of the galleries, the deference toward Western trends.

United had to defend obdurately - and at times desperately - in the latter stages, but saw out Courts' fifth victory in six competitive games.

Mr. Yang, 54, had long been one of China’s most obdurately determined democracy activists, and had spent more than a decade in detention and prison.

When Williams played the first Kansas City Women’s Jazz Festival in 1978, she obdurately declared, “I’m very feminine but I think like a man.”

What do you call it when Donald Trumpov continuously spouts overtly racist and authoritarian rhetoric while obdurately refusing to take the necessary action to stop a raging pandemic?