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Example sentences for "uncompromising"

Lexicographically close words:
uncomplimentary; uncompounded; uncomprehended; uncomprehending; uncomprehendingly; uncompromisingly; unconcealed; unconcern; unconcerned; unconcernedly
  1. No doubt only an uncompromising honesty had caused her to fulfil a promise.

  2. That he should have antagonized in this bill her well known position as the uncompromising advocate of peace and of universal disarmament was a shock.

  3. He was the uncompromising champion of moral suasion as the solution of all international troubles.

  4. She had thrown aside the last ensigns of filial regret, and now walked sad and splendid in the uncompromising colors of an affianced bride.

  5. No answer seemed possible to that uncompromising fact.

  6. It was evident to the emperor that, if an uncompromising stand were taken up on that point, the whole edifice would collapse.

  7. You can't help it," was her uncompromising answer.

  8. She hadn't been here four or five weeks before she made it plain enough what she is," was the uncompromising retort.

  9. If I snubbed her," was the uncompromising rejoinder with which a suggestion of this sort was met, "I'm sure I am not ashamed of it.

  10. He was proud, high-minded, magnanimous, with an uncompromising love of truth.

  11. After the tired dog had caught up with them, looking reproachfully, they left behind the bleak church which lifts its golden crosses with uncompromising directness to the winter sky.

  12. On the German side the more or less uncompromising attitude toward all things French as far as Alsace-Lorraine was officially claimed to be a matter of political necessity.

  13. Sazonof, Minister for Foreign Affairs at St. Petersburg, that the Berlin press in the main warmly welcomed the uncompromising attitude of Austria-Hungary.

  14. But, those presuppositions granted, everything in it has the uncompromising clearness and persuasive reality that Browning invariably communicates to his dreams.

  15. His uncompromising "infinity" will not comply with finite conditions, and he remains an inefficient and inarticulate genius, a Hamlet of poetry.

  16. She had sat silent and uncompromising during the scene, making no move toward offering a rehabilitating hand.

  17. Her uncompromising manner had vanished, and her stolid features shone with renewed good will.

  18. I see now that this was very priggish of me, but I am quite as uncompromising in my hatred of scandal now as I was then.

  19. On to this sunlit scene stalks Hiordis, a figure of gloom, revenge, of feud eternal, of relentless hatred and uncompromising unforgetfulness of wrong.

  20. The strictures contained in these girlish letters on the various plays in which I was called to perform the heroines, of course partake of the uncompromising nature of all youthful verdicts.

  21. Such passages as this show the uncompromising loyalty of Sunday to the Bible: "Here is a book, God's Word, that I will put up against all the books of all the ages.

  22. Her commercial importance is large; her ships float on many seas; and she rejoices now in the same uncompromising spirit of independence which controlled the actions of the celebrated "Tea Party" in the pioneer days of '76.

  23. Duplay sought the telegraph office and informed Iver of the uncompromising attitude of the enemy.

  24. But he would not be denied; his tread came nearer; he overtook her and halted almost by her side, raising his hat and gazing with uncompromising straightness in her face.

  25. You are very hard and uncompromising in your dictation to me, Nesbit, but I can have feelings and scruples as well as you.

  26. In his eyes, the conduct of the two women whose influence had been potent in his life, while springing from different causes, had resulted in the same effect--uncompromising hardness toward him.

  27. He was careful to behave with the utmost rudeness, in order to show the uncompromising character of a Frenchman's Catholicism.

  28. One of Henry Cromwell's difficulties would have been Ludlow, had that uncompromising Republican remained in Ireland.

  29. But enough have been told to illustrate the active benevolence, uncompromising boldness, and ready wit, which characterized this friend of humanity.

  30. About this period northern hostility to slavery took a new form, more bold and uncompromising than the old Abolition Societies.

  31. The first and most sacred duty of every Southerner, who has the honor and the interest of his country at heart, is to declare himself an unqualified and uncompromising abolitionist.

  32. The Scotch Covenanter, the most uncompromising and unenlightened of all Puritans, flourished in the Carolinas from the start, and in 1698, or thereabout, he was reinforced from New England.

  33. There is a kind of sociability in any room, be it ever so uncompromising in the matter of discomfort, but a crowded street can be unutterably lonely, either cruelly so or kindly as the case may be.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "uncompromising" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    adamant; arbitrary; blunt; difficult; dour; emphatic; extreme; firm; flinty; fundamentalist; grim; hard; hidebound; immovable; immutable; implacable; inelastic; inexorable; inflexible; insistent; intransigent; iron; ironbound; ironclad; irreconcilable; obdurate; obstinate; orthodox; peremptory; puritanical; relentless; rigid; rigorous; rockbound; severe; stalwart; steely; stern; stiff; strict; strong; stubborn; sturdy; sure; tenacious; tight; tough; unaffected; unalterable; unbending; unchangeable; uncompromising; unmoved; unrelenting; unyielding