Example Sentences

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As such, we may be encouraging arrogance and unyieldingness in our readers, viewers and listeners.

From New York Times • Jun. 17, 2021

The thought is troubling my mind that she has a narrow heart, and that in this lies the secret of her unyieldingness.

From Without Dogma by Sienkiewicz, Henryk

Something in the unyieldingness of her expression drove Nancy to utter abandon.

From Happy House by Abbott, Jane D.

I believe it is the strength of the ego feeling which gives to some the vigor and unyieldingness of their conscience.

From The Foundations of Personality by Myerson, Abraham

That quiet strength of will in so soft a creature—a will opposed to his will—had brought him up against the unyieldingness of the world.

From The Mating of Lydia by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.