Sentence examples for an utter refusal from inspiring English sources

Bowden feels and understands the anger of people who feel cut off and out of the loop, and why they are starting to react with an utter refusal to go on being somebody else's baby.

"Minds that don't change are like clams that don't open," she says in an introductory note, and proceeds to provide an italicized running commentary on "Is Gender Necessary?" The commentary is fascinating throughout, but is most notable for what she says about her earlier defense of using the male pronoun and her "utter refusal" to concoct a new term for "he/she".

Todd had the reputation of being a first string con artist & having an utter neurotic refusal to part with money.

The Voice of David Simon: I got a sense of Simon's worldview – his utter refusal to compromise – when Creighton's agent came down from New York to ask him to shoehorn some chapters on Hurricane Katrina into his novel on the 1927 flood.

But just look at me now: childless and alone, all of my dreams crippled by a repulsion towards the idea of actually ever opening a law book, as well as my utter refusal to wake up before 7AM, especially to make some fucking bread.

But in Australia the utter refusal to admit defeat was given its shape by a great leader, Martin Johnson, and its point by a technician of genius, Jonny Wilkinson.

Its "utter refusal to do anything" about the ferry attack was another reason for the warning, a Western diplomat said.

But his greatest trick is his utter refusal to answer any actual questions about how any of his ideas actually work.

They warn against the utter refusal to try to understand fanaticism and the cringe of colonial guilt that appears to justify it.

What was most striking to me was Mr. Scaramucci's utter refusal to accept the notion that something truly systemic had infected the financial industry during the bubble years.

Beneath the riffs there was despair and the utter refusal to take care of himself -- overeating, drinking, chain-smoking -- that led to his death at 55. Despair and the refusal to share it bred other despairs.