sticking together "two coherent sheets"; "tenacious burrs" coherenttenacious
stubbornly unyielding "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" doggeddourpersistentpertinacioustenaciousunyielding