Michael Grayer, chairman of the Wilfred Owen Association, described his poems as "hard-hitting and uncompromising, written with lucidity, clarity and economy".
The building was "uncompromising," she wrote.
Through it all, Martin intermittently pines for the approval of Stanley Flint, the imperious, uncompromising editor and writing teacher whose spell the young man first falls under in college.
The promise that uncompromising musicians were writing unappreciated works for the predilections of listeners not yet born worked through much of the post-Beethoven era, but posterity has given up waiting.
Her uncompromising Christian writing is why collegians name clubs after her.
Smith describes Op. 39 as a whole as "a towering achievement, gathering ... the most complete manifestation of Alkan's many-sided genius: its dark passion, its vital rhythmic drive, its pungent harmony, its occasionally outrageous humour, and, above all, its uncompromising piano writing".
Who would have thought that this most uncompromising playwright would write something so glossy as Spooks?
Its "uncompromising slowness," she wrote, "makes it hard to sit through without talking".
"He was a formidable advocate, a tall erect Quaker with uncompromising principles," Anthony Sampson wrote in "The Seven Sisters" (1975), "but he was regarded by many diplomats as being too committed an Arabophile".
She wants to write uncompromising music that she loves and that's fun for her to do, but at the same time she also wants to have huge hits".
"That so uncompromising a work, written in prose of an artificiality and complexity that approaches the impenetrable — indeed often achieves it — that this should have become what the publishers gloatingly call 'a runaway best-seller' is something new".
