unbending

Example Sentences

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Unbending and pugnacious in his artistic actions, Mr. Pavlensky is surprisingly gentle in person, though his sunken cheeks and shaved head, scarred from the fight on New Year’s Eve, give him an intimidating air.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2020

Unbending loyalty knit them all to the man whose name was plastered on the building.

From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2018

Unbending more than is his wont, Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams, in modified rustic garb, steered Mrs. Rocco Siciliano, wife of a White House aide, through the galumphing podner-swinging of a square dance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unbending a bit, Thuy and his aides even took in the horse races at the fashionable Auteuil track in the Bois de Boulogne.

From Time Magazine Archive

Unbending figures, black and stark Against the intense deeps of the dark.

From Young Adventure, a Book of Poems by Benét, Stephen Vincent