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Significados de unbending em inglês

Incapable of adapting or changing to meet circumstances.

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Uso de unbending em inglês
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Now, he thought, unbending it and holding it in his right hand.
Misery
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One gets, too, an idea of an unbending volition in the thing.
A Volunteer Poilu
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Thus let even our unbending be for the benefit of the Republic.
The Letters of Cassiodorus / Being a Condensed Translation of th...
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His presence was grave and imposing on serious occasions, but not unbending.
Hidden Treasures; Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail
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There can be no dissent when the party line is literally unbending.
BBC
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He was of the make that wears unbending hope as its birthright.
The Spenders: A Tale of the Third Generation
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He drew himself up, and stood stiff and unbending beside the bed.
The Lamp of Fate
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Time only could soften that poor woman, obstinately unbending in her grief.
His Excellency the Minister
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There was no anger in her voice now, only perfect, unbending conviction.
Cruel Beauty
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He eyed the prior with a look as unbending as his own.
The Secret Chamber at Chad
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The ball swayed to and fro, but evinced no disposition for unbending.
Hubert's Wife / A Story for You
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Two companies, two women at the top, two sets of unbending rules.
The Guardian
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The ambassador drew himself a little more upright, a stiff unbending figure.
The Kingdom of the Blind
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But those unbending Forefathers well knew what they wanted that charter for.
Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
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Such unbending rules, however, we do not at the present day approve.
The Institutes of Justinian
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He was then unimaginably awkward, incapable of unbending, a wet blanket socially.
The Mirrors of Washington
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