obdurate (adj) - stubbornly persistent or resistant to persuasion or pity; refusing to reform or repent [ob-doo-rit]
BREAKDOWN: OB- (against) + DUR- (hard) + -ATE (being)
obduracy is a stubborn refusal to change, yield, or cooperate
“The fates are not quite obdurate; they have a grim, sardonic way of granting them who supplicate the thing they wanted yesterday.” —Roselle Mercier Montgomery