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Objectionable
Offensive opinions
Oddly obdurate

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Paradise Lost

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That witnessed huge affliction
and dismay,
Mixed with obdurate pride and
steadfast hate.
At once, as far as Angels ken,
he views
The dismal situation waste and
wild.
A dungeon horrible, on all
sides round,

I, 57-61

Alley Stoughton

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"I stopped one last time at the Stones of Stenness, which have dwelled in my memory since I was seventeen. Despite the deluge of new data, the megaliths had given up none of their obdurate strangeness. They may not have been intended to last millennia, but, now that they have, they are stone […]