Sentence examples for resistant son from inspiring English sources

On a canoe trip together, Bay reaches back to his own youthful confusion and tells his resistant son about the woodsy metaphysics of a boys' camp he attended in 1964.

All sons are made in their father's shade, and Grant's pushy, braggart, loudmouthed father produced a quiet, outwardly obedient, and inwardly resistant son, who came to hate showing off.

They have left the church that made Ms. Clementi so resistant to her son's declaration.

Corn disease epidemic wiped out supply 1970; father and son developed disease-resistant seeds in south Florida during winter.

Here one senses in the son's somewhat listless writing a resistant subservience.

"You are a rather aggressive beauty, aren't you?" he breathed, before forcing a kiss upon her resistant lips and promising to break both her son's legs.

His son Cristophe was at the time a Resistant in northern France, having joined the Franc Tireurs Partisans.

Early this year, her son Iker had a series of infections that proved resistant to treatment.

He talks openly about this situation in therapy, but he's resistant to change, since right now he has both wife and son, just not at the same time.

My Yee Thaung, whose nine-year-old son recently had malaria thought to be drug-resistant, said he recovered, slowly, "but he's still not eating very well".

Toltz's book is ostensibly a father-and-son narrative, the would-be mentor and the resistant protege, but that description doesn't quite capture its tone or its ambition.