Sentence examples for steadfast yet from inspiring English sources

In "Diversion of Angels" (1948), Katherine Crockett was serene as the woman in white, steadfast yet delicate in a role she has owned for some 15 years.

It was harrowing, yet steadfast depiction of the effect on family life of severe mental illness.

As a director, he was variable in achievement yet steadfast in ambition.

Meanwhile Mr. Waits's voice — barking and hollering, gruffly crooning or floating in a rickety yet steadfast falsetto — is usually a one-take performance.

Twelve points in arrears at the break, Northampton spent the whole of the second half going forward into a desperate yet steadfast Saracens defence.

In "Die Walkure," face to face with the Valkyrie whose appearance presages a hero's death, Mr. Vickers spun out phrases of steadfast, unearthly evenness, yet broken by a slight catch before the names of Valhalla and Wotan.

At a time when another, altogether more sombre and grandiose action film, "Prometheus," puts forth an earnest mythology of faith, it's worthwhile to compare its proud and self-important bombast with the self-deprecating, self-humbling, yet steadfast joy and the spare, innocent wonder of Hess's cinematic vision.

Dr. Warnock has been steadfast and outspoken, yet seemingly out there alone in his support of Troy Davis.

We are going to have to be steadfast in our anger yet measured in our justice.

They don't hesitate to preach morality at every turn; yet are steadfast against letting women decide what to do with their own bodies.

A chorus sang "If Others Prove Untrue, Yet We Shall Steadfast Be," the song of the Waffen S.S.