Sentences with phrase «unyielding as»

«so unyielding as to require enforcement of an agreement to arbitrate a dispute over the application of a regulatory statute which a state legislature, in conformity with analogous federal policy, has decided should be left to judicial enforcement.»

But she was uncannily and informatively direct in her writings and statements, vivid, sharp and unyielding as a speaker, and brilliant as an artist, in her treatment of her subject matter, in her lines, her forms, her surfaces, her approaches to materiality and space.

See, while Lords of the Fallen starts off every bit as unyielding as Dark Souls, the right combination of equipment and character building can turn things into a cakewalk.

The sudden illness of patriarch Harold Meyerowitz (Hoffman, roguishly unyielding as only he can be) occasions conflict and reluctant teamwork among his sons (Ben Stiller and Adam Sandler, mining his unreconstructed man - child for pathos, as he does whenever he has competent direction) and wallflower daughter (Elizabeth Marvel, superb if underutilized).

Not exact matches

CUPERTINO, Calif. — Apple CEO Tim Cook rocks in his chair as he meets the question with an unyielding gaze.

Perhaps the author should also have included the far fringes of religion such as the far right, unbending and unyielding, or the far left, believing only those passages that suit their agenda.

God as love - in - action is more than any particular expression of His love (hence He is transcendent); God as love - in - action is always available (hence He is onmipresent); God as love - in - action is able to envisage every situation in its deepest and truest reality and accommodate Himself to it, so that He can indeed achieve His loving ends (hence He is omniscient and omnipotent); God as love - inaction is unswerving in His love, unfailing in its expression, unyielding in His desire to confront men with the demands of love (hence He is righteous).

However this may be, the fact is plain that for contemporary men and women, not only of a sophisticated sort but also of quite ordinary attainments, the notion of God as absolute power, as unyielding moral dictator, and as metaphysical first cause never Himself affected, has gone dead.

Bleich treats this position as beyond dispute, framing his argument in the language of absolutes — «uncompromising,» «unyielding,» «sine qua non,» «null and void.»

Aetheists are often as unyielding and judgemental as the Vatican.

The trial, as Arthur Garfield Hays put it, «was a battle between two types of mind — the rigid, orthodox, accepting, unyielding, narrow, conventional mind, and the broad, liberal, critical, cynical, skeptical, and tolerant mind.»

As I sit out of my porch with twilight long past, the darkness of the sky pure and unyielding, I breath in the night and hold it in my lungs until my chest aches.

So today, as before, and for years to come, Galway Downs is a standing, growing beacon of unyielding bonds, family, Nature, life, and truth.

And as you can imagine at such a college, faith, unyielding unwavering belief, is almost everything.

It's not that there is any malevolence about him, just an unyielding intensity that hasn't dissipated in the 16 years since he retired as the Chicago Bears» middle linebacker.

It is probably true that Righetti's unyielding will to win has as much to do with his success as a reliever as does his rising fastball.

But there is a growing influence of Mkhitaryan in this new look unyielding United side as they seem more fluid and off - the - cuff in possession than they have been in recent years and definitely much more direct than under the previous regime.

Their fear is that such a strict, unyielding rule is likely to be evaded by the very players it is designed to protect, leading players to simply stop telling sideline medical personnel that they have any symptoms so as to avoid being benched for the remainder of the game.

An unyielding winter is about to dump yet another major snowfall on the New York region, with forecasters projecting more than a foot of snow just as the calendar ticks toward spring.

The group justified their resolve to go public with the issues, claiming it was as a result of unyielding responses from their leaders internally.

You could treat them all as one big unit to create a stiff, unyielding back, but the lack of mobility would quickly catch up to you.

As Diane Ackerman puts it, «Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding, and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours, life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length.»

Despite my unyielding affection for silk blouses, dresses, and trousers, taking my clothes to the dry cleaner is about as unappealing as it gets.

On the other hand, no transposition would have helped Russell Crowe as the lawman Javert, Valjean's unyielding antagonist: His voice is tight and comes from the head, the sound of a foghorn ending in a wheeze.

It's all the same unyielding grunts and grimaces — O'Connell has very few actual lines in the movie — as Louis suffers mightily, particularly at the hands of Watanabe, the P.O.W. camp's young commanding officer and chief antagonizer.

Unyielding in its sense of unease, director John Krasinski's masterful third feature, A Quiet Place, employs the nifty driving device in its version of a post-apocalyptic world: survivors must maintain absolute silence so as not to attract the hulking yet jarringly swift alien - like creatures that have inexplicably taken over upstate New York and most likely far beyond.

The film is led by Melissa Leo as the punishing and unyielding Mother Superior, but features a stunning cast led by Margaret Qualley as Grace and Julianne Nicholson as her wary, unreligious mother.

And as directed by Danny Boyle and written by Simon Beaufoy, who is also credited as the series» creator, the story of his extended refusal to pay any ransom for his grandson (Beach Rats breakout Harris Dickinson) is the story of generational strife, an old, unfeeling billionaire enraged as much by the freedom, carelessness, and vigor of youth as he is the unyielding march of time and the inevitability of his death.

Here's just a taste of Dickinson's unyielding language, taken from the end of one of her most celebrated anatomies of trauma: «As freezing persons, recollect the Snow — / First — Chill — then Stupor — then the letting go --».

Sally Hawkins has the daunting task of emoting so much with zero dialogue but with a face of held secrets and unyielding love for that which is most obscure she absolutely shines as the silenced maid of a secret government laboratory.

It helps that he is using Jean Dujardin, who is working against type as the tough, unyielding magistrate, a performer whose title role in George Valentin's silent film «The Artist» is a gem of comedy in which a Jack Russell terrier stole the show right from under Dujardin.

This argument resonates with my own classroom experience, in which the constraints of our physical building and our unyielding, compartmentalized schedule daily act as barriers to teaching and learning.

As a teacher of leaders, I have chosen to fight for children in a way that is unyielding.

He uses his commentary piece to explores the antics of Commissioner Stefan Pryor, Governor Malloy and the charter school industry as they try to explain away their unyielding commitment to privatizing public education in Connecticut and pushing forward to implement the Common Core and its unfair, inappropriate and discriminatory standardized testing scheme.

As its mission states, «CSUSA creates and operates high quality schools with: an unwavering dedication to student success, an unyielding commitment to ethical, sound and efficient business practices, providing a superior choice for all stakeholders that fosters education excellence in America.»

On many journeys, cross - country as well as trundling through the city, it will smack into a pothole with such a solid and unyielding bang that it actually makes you go «OOOF», partly out of some mechanical sympathy and partly because you've just had your spine shortened again.

Many performance cars focus their efforts so sharply on a particular metric that it serves as a detriment to the overall enjoyment of the car — an unyielding stiff suspension might be useful on certain track surfaces but it's invariably unpleasant on public roads, and a small chassis is great for lap times but less so when you need to go to Costco.

Orthodox preachers found it difficult to achieve a foothold in the state, Calvinists being particularly unwelcome as much for their unyielding doctrines as for their associations with the forces of government.

Rhys Winterborne is known for his ruthless business practices, and that unyielding spirit carries over into courting as well.

And as her friends and family rally round to celebrate Rabbit's last days, they look to her for strength, support, and her unyielding zest for life.

Another response to the conflict was the organization of a rigid, unyielding superego, the acceptance of «autonomous» behavioural mandates as a superego function not accessible to ego control.

In our action - packed single - player and same - screen co-op demos, players will explore the haunted streets of Westmarch as one of our five original classes, or test their mettle as the unyielding Crusader.

While many observers have regarded this view as merely typical of the artist's notoriously unyielding singularity, in hindsight Still's words ring true at a deeper level.

The gallery thus suffered from its remit of being too British and unyielding on keeping things as they should be — or rather, as they always have been.

Cnaani refers to these works as «original copies» — a copy habitually just reproduces without change, but here, creativity and new dialogues between herself, the visitor, and the community of strangers replace that customary, unyielding, efficiency.

In contrast to Nestler's installation are Robin Stein's photographs of stark dwellings dotting the desert landscape, whose residents are utilizing the land as a habitat, albeit its hostile and unyielding characteristics.

At the core of the project are works by nine contemporary artists, who gained world recognition as much for their participation in prestigious exhibitions, as for the unyielding demand for their art and its presence in the collections of major museums and esteemed private collections.

As far as I'm aware Cy Twombly never painted outdoor murals, but seeing the exhibition of his last paintings that just opened at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, I thought about bursts of unyielding energy, so characteristic of this octogenarian artist in the last years of his lifAs far as I'm aware Cy Twombly never painted outdoor murals, but seeing the exhibition of his last paintings that just opened at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, I thought about bursts of unyielding energy, so characteristic of this octogenarian artist in the last years of his lifas I'm aware Cy Twombly never painted outdoor murals, but seeing the exhibition of his last paintings that just opened at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, I thought about bursts of unyielding energy, so characteristic of this octogenarian artist in the last years of his life.

As if to foreshadow Smith's signature repetitiveness, a few homemade aluminum stop sign paintings appear as a glib note to self in this room, and yet they are unyielding in their provocatioAs if to foreshadow Smith's signature repetitiveness, a few homemade aluminum stop sign paintings appear as a glib note to self in this room, and yet they are unyielding in their provocatioas a glib note to self in this room, and yet they are unyielding in their provocation.

In a career spanning five decades, Mauri conducted an unyielding critical exploration of the mechanics of ideology, specifically as they materialized in the visual languages associated with World War II, the rise of Fascism and the Holocaust, and their lingering echoes in the modern world.