Sentence examples for recalcitrant character from inspiring English sources

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Harriet is a true, spiky child, all odd angles and unexpected depths, and her brooding on the death of her brother seems of a piece with her recalcitrant character.

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It turns out that Will, the most likably recalcitrant coming-of-age character this side of Gilbert Grape, resists any whiff of success.

He has to deal with his own quirky staff, artists, managers and recalcitrant radio stations, all filled with characters whose excesses may seem outlandish on television, but were in many cases the real-life norm of that Wild West era.

Nevertheless, many diaries on display are almost painful in their confrontations with the recalcitrant reality of their authors' lives and characters.

In the quartet near the end of the opera, he makes some discreet changes in the repeat, so that the recalcitrant Tiridate seems to be "reformed" by the other characters during the course of the piece.

It is pointed out, mysteriously, that Cratchett, the recalcitrant solicitor's clerk, has never heard of Dickens, or the world-famous character who more or less bears his name.

Additionally, acidic oligosaccharides (70%% recalcitrant) were more recalcitrant than neutral oligosaccharides (49%% recalcitrance).

In the process, he bends the technical art of filmmaking and the technical art of architecture into mirror images of each other, recalcitrant materials rendered personal through force of ideas, of ideals, of method, and of character.

Despite his eloquent testimonials to the need for a free press, Jefferson was outraged by the persistent attacks on his policies and character from those quarters, and he instructed the attorneys general in the recalcitrant states to seek indictments, in clear violation of his principled commitment to freedom of expression.

As ska slowed down in the mid 60s and turned into rocksteady – a transition Buster did much to nurture – he set Jamaica alight with a series of records featuring his mythical character Judge Dread, a super-tough magistrate who handed out ridiculously long sentences to recalcitrant rude boys.

But it is Cochran who not only plays the most developed of Letts' characters but is the one who truly dazzles, her disgust with a philandering husband, recalcitrant daughter and bully of a mother finally pushing her to dare to take charge of this dysfunctional family.

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