Sentence examples for recalcitrant manner from inspiring English sources

Nature keeps escaping us and is bound to remain something other, something Real: nature as that which continues to withdraw itself, which refuses to become completely identifiable and compatible with the techno-scientific way of making reality visible; nature as that which flashes up, in a recalcitrant manner, in the folds and margins of the scientific representation of the world.

He came across not as an earnest man thwarted by a recalcitrant physical manner.

This page opposed the predawn raid in April by federal immigration agents to remove Elian from the home of his Miami relatives as an unwarranted use of force against citizens who were behaving in a recalcitrant but not violent manner.

There is little evidence that we have seen, however, that this reduction will do any thing to resuscitate a recalcitrant economy in a manner that will make a difference for the majority of Americans in either the short or mid-term.

John Bridges, a writer on etiquette, says he has his hands full trying to persuade recalcitrant males that good manners will not be viewed as an affectation.

The perpetually warring redcoats of the British Raj coined a phrase for exacting this manner of retribution from recalcitrant native peoples: "butcher and bolt".

But I ask those who chide that he might have cleared legislative gridlock had he been more a back-slapping arm-twister in the manner of Lyndon B Johnson, do you think those Republican recalcitrants just managing to mask their racism would have acquiesced to such a touch?

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

Sheep proved recalcitrant.

Bosnian Serbs were recalcitrant.

The villagers were recalcitrant.