Usage examples for obduracy:

• Obduracy is better than falsehood. "Rossmoyne" – Unknown

• Priests, schools of thought, political schemers, leaders of men, have always slipped into the error of assuming that they can think out the whole- or at any rate completely think out definite parts- of the purpose and future of man, clearly and finally; they have set themselves to legislate and construct on that assumption, and, experiencing the perplexing obduracy and evasions of reality, they have taken to dogma, persecution, training, pruning, secretive education; and all the stupidities of self- sufficient energy. "A Preface to Politics" – Walter Lippmann

• Compare endure, endurance, obduracy "Stories from Tagore" – Rabindranath Tagore