Word: unyieldingness
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For the novice attempting his first climb, HMC rule-makers have devised a devilish set of directives and frustrations. The experts tell you there's no holds barred, but the man who uses his knee in a climb is roundly booed from below, and the student who grabs the belaying...
A Solid Symbol. For West Pointer Clay, the four years in Germany had been full of trouble, full of achievement, frustration-and plenty of criticism from all sides. The French objected violently to his singleminded, often stubborn determination to put Germany on its feet economically. Germans of all parties considered...
That was the Mindszenty the Communists arrested. Nobody had pressed him into his dangerous opposition. He had not fooled himself into thinking he was safe. He had taken, out of his own unyielding character, the uphill road to martyrdom.
Other books of verse by older writers: Robinson Jeffers' crabbed The Double Axe, which most critics resented for its arrogant, unyielding isolationism; Paterson, Book II, a homey description of small-city life by William Carlos Williams, a New Jersey doctor who versifies between paying patients; Mark Van Doren'...
The 56,000 Roman Catholics of Vancouver Archdiocese know their Archbishop William Duke as an unyielding foe of Sunday picnics, parish hall dances, demon rum and Marxism. They call him "The Iron Duke."