Example Sentences

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The world is changing in ways they hate and fear, and the response is sheer bloody-mindedness.

From Salon • Sep. 8, 2023

The "single bloody-mindedness" of 300 people to travel from around the UK to help him is one of the reasons.

From BBC • Jan. 25, 2022

I must admit that, even back then, as a huge Dexys fan, I regarded My Beauty more as a curio – I admired the sheer bloody-mindedness of it but found the arrangements a bit schmaltzy.

From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2020

Not as naturally gifted as Sam Snead or Byron Nelson, Hogan rose to the top of the game through grit and sheer bloody-mindedness.

From Golf Digest • Jul. 12, 2018

This was done in no mere vulgar spirit of bravado, still less in abominable bloody-mindedness.

From The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812 by Langton, H. H. (Hugh Hornby)