Sentence examples for headstrong in from inspiring English sources

He proved to be as headstrong in the woods and on the water as he was artful and deliberate in his shop, and he managed the trip as if he were the owner-skipper of a bireme.

"Right now, the big thing is to take a little edge off him," said Servis, who is clearly mindful that the challenge of the Belmont is in its mile-and-a-half distance and that a horse that is too headstrong in that race runs the risk of exhausting itself before the finish line.

In the first study, significant differences were observed between the groups favoring Headstrong in headache frequency, severity, and duration, but there were no differences in headache disability (PedMIDAS).

Even death chambers that were out of use were carefully guarded, which pushed Dillon to be even more headstrong in her quest.

Smith, best known for Doctor Who, will play unbearable vicar Mr Collins, while Downton Abbey's James will star in the lead as the headstrong (and in this case martial arts-trained) Elizabeth Bennett.

George Cukor was chosen to direct in late April 1942 because he had dealt well with troubled and headstrong actors in the past, and Tracy was considered a difficult actor to direct.

She writes in her seminal book on this subject, What Terrorists Want, that she would have joined the IRA "in a heartbeat" aged 14 and that her mother locked the headstrong teenager in her room to stop her joining a protest march a week after Bloody Sunday in 1972.

In view of the results of this study and the initial pilot study [12], we would recommend the use of the Headstrong program in clinical settings as an initial adjunctive treatment for pediatric headaches in combination with medications.

A turn as a headstrong lieutenant in the World War II submarine thriller U-571 (2000) was similarly ignored.

She has played headstrong women in comedies by her husband, Mr. Attal: "Ma femme est une actrice" (My Wife is an Actress) in 2000 and "Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants" (And They Lived Happily Ever After) in 2004.

Following the characters so beautifully realised as headstrong youths in Gawain into sombre, tactical middle age, it tells the bloodstained tale of Arthur's annexation of swaths of mainland Europe, and his final, grievous fall.