strong-minded
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Strong-minded woman that she was, she laid aside her plans for a new novel—“Adela,” about Jane Eyre’s pupil, Mr. Rochester’s daughter—and went to work, fast, with an assistant, on a collection of her nonfiction.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017
Strong-minded and strong-willed, the 126-pound Floresca is looking to make school history and become the school's first state champion since Tim Hester won the 189-pound class in 2008.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2013
Strong-minded people resent being told what is best for them, even by able experts.
From Time Magazine Archive
Strong-minded Foster Dulles was so toweringly No. 1 at State that No. 2 inevitably found himself uncomfortably overshadowed�especially after having been No. 1 for four years in his own Massachusetts bailiwick.
From Time Magazine Archive
Strong-minded and clear-headed, he calculated correctly that the momentary dislike of his schoolfellows, with whom he well knew that he never could be popular, would be less unbearable than Barker's villanous insults.
From Eric by Farrar, F. W. (Frederic William)
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