Example Sentences

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Denis is a writer and director with a ferociously individual vision: her output is unpredictable, sometimes intransigently tough.

From The Guardian • Apr. 22, 2018

Is there anyone in the country, period, not intransigently locked into his or her opinions?

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2015

Notoriously intransigently difficult, the novel takes its title from Macbeth's reflection that life is "a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing".

From The Guardian • Jul. 20, 2012

The one thing they did not concede was what the Tribune Co. most intransigently sought: management's right to determine how many jobs were needed, rather than having staff levels guaranteed by contract.

From Time Magazine Archive

Where a play like Rhinoceros was intransigently original, as the imagery of The Triumph of Death cumulates, it becomes literary, reminiscent; often beautiful, it is eventually muffled in echo.

From Time Magazine Archive