Fidelity, devotion, discretion, a sense of tacit virtue, unyielding principle, and conspicuous reserve — Ben is the apotheosis of conventional liberal morality, a firm grid of values that he applies to himself without daring to impose on others.
But this is a mayor who has piously put himself forth as a man of unyielding principle, whose strength is the perception that he does not curry favor with run-of-the-mill politicians.
Where can such an unyielding principle be found?
The International Conferences of Genomics under the BGI's organization follow Deng Xiaoping's philosophy, 'Developing is an unyielding principle', which has created the economic miracle in mainland China for more than three decades.
Crucially, he was a passionate, unyielding voice for democratic principles, including support for young people seeking the tools to make their mark on society.
Unyielding in principle and unbending in artistic vision, he spiraled into depression after the assassinations of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968 and committed suicide in 1976 at 35. "American Masters" begins a 26th season with this documentary from Kenneth Bowser, who chronicles Ochs's life through interviews with Joan Baez, Tom Hayden, Sean Penn and Pete Seeger.
Don Fabrizio, Said wrote, was "in effect the last Lampedusa, whose own cultivated melancholy, totally without self-pity, stands at the center of the novel, exiled from the continuing history of the 20th century, enacting a state of anachronistic lateness with a compelling authenticity and an unyielding ascetic principle that rules out sentimentality and nostalgia".
Russia is equally unyielding.
Bold unorthodox, unyielding.
Trump has been unyielding.
