adamantine

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Although in her youth Catherine had imbibed Enlightenment views about the suffering of the common people, she was pragmatic enough to leave undisturbed the adamantine ways of the Russian countryside.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Akira is not so much an obstacle, then, as he is a diamond in the rough, a permanent part of Takiko and her adamantine resolve to live on her own terms.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 23, 2022

She arrived in the United States from India in the early 1980s, armed with a jet-black braid that fell down her back, dreams of dental school and an adamantine sense of determination.

From Washington Post • Jan. 24, 2019

Its adamantine perfection is the perfectly unstable embodiment of a moment of unendurable consciousness—of an ideal that was still awaiting its transformative action.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 19, 2016

“The haunting begins at midnight,” said the girl with the adamantine chin.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston