stubbornly

Anne squirmed off the bed and sat rigidly on a chair beside it, her face swollen and tear-stained and her eyes fixed stubbornly on the floor.

They incorporate modern conveniences into their daily practice while stubbornly maintaining their deeply ingrained social customs and established domestic hierarchies.

Yet, this particular conclusion presented a unique challenge, a syntactic knot that stubbornly resisted her most seasoned and practiced strategies.