Sentence examples for quiet refusal from inspiring English sources

Quiet refusal could be said to be Mr. Dawson's modus operandi.

Precociously, he intuited the only strategy that would work with Italian officials: "Quiet refusal to go away".

Against the profligacy of so much of today's art world, they constitute a quiet refusal, a rebellious act of abstinence that results in its own kind of fullness.

Against the profligacy of so much of today's art world, Mr. Wurtz's work reads as a quiet refusal, a rebellious act of abstinence that results in its own kind of fullness.

Irony, he wrote, is a corrosive, world-weary habit of mind, "a quiet refusal to believe in the depth of relationships, the sincerity of motivation, or the truth of speech -- especially earnest speech".

There are also the Russians and the Chinese, whose formal no's have come in the form of U.N. Security Council vetoes on resolutions that might have meant a start, and whose quieter refusals have been a decisive — if not the only — factor in preventing the formation of a sensible international consensus.

Polling day in Kenya was quiet; the refusal of either big party to accept defeat was what sparked the violence.

Her quiet plotting and refusal to be out-smarted by adults makes her a definite, notable menace.

Then again, as a quiet act of refusal, there still seems something unshakeably symbolic about sticking with a supposedly outmoded technology, spending time focusing on one thing rather than hundreds.

It shows one school friend from when Miliband was 12, Socratis Socratous, praising the way he picked things up so quickly and another friend, Lucy Lamb, lauding his trustworthiness, quiet steadiness and refusal to change who he was.

Sarah Conlon won huge admiration in Ireland for her quiet dignity and refusal to feel bitterness.