unbending
IPA: ʌnbˈɛndɪŋ
noun
- The act of one who unbends.
adjective
- inflexible and not yielding
- very reserved, aloof and asocial
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Examples of "unbending" in Sentences
- Strict, kind of unbending fundamentalist religions is the way they were both brought up.
- Constance had been wondering how she could inform Tony that his aunt and sister had arrived, without unbending from the dignified silence of the past three days.
- But the Alexandrine, by its pause in the midst, is a tardy and stately measure; and the word unbending, one of the most sluggish and slow which our language affords, cannot much accelerate its motion.
- At various times Lady Huntingdon expressed her religious experience in verse, and the manful vigor of her school of faith recalls the unbending confidence of Job, for she was not a stranger to affliction.
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