It was very sweet always and very cold generally; sometimes it softened to tenderness with those she loved, but in it there was always an undertone of inflexibility and reserve.
The strange woman felt a certain pride in her own inflexibility because the fact did not affect her.
But the inflexibility of the procureur should stop there; she would see him the next day, and if she could not make him fail in his duties as a magistrate, she would, at least, obtain all the indulgence he could allow.
He spoke in a voice of the procureur-general, with the rigid inflexibility of neck and shoulders which caused his flatterers to say (as we have before observed) that he was the living statue of the law.
His conversations with Madame de Stael were printed, and circulated all over the world; making it to appear that only the inflexibility of Lady Byron stood in the way of his entire conversion.
Her inflexibility on this point kept up that enmity which was constantly expressing itself in some publication or other, and which drew her and her private relations with him before the public.
Excited as she was, she had seen the inflexibility of his purpose.
There was a gentle inflexibility in their natures born of long restraint and practised determination.
This seems a remarkable exception from the general inflexibility of his adherence to the rule of right.
But the characteristic sweetness of Fenelon’s disposition is often shown in contrast with the somewhat stern inflexibility of Locke.
And with a dark smile which made his face look like that of some malignant demon, he turned, and preserving his proud inflexibility of demeanour, without another look or gesture, left the apartment.
The fluctuating wisdom of authors and reformers--the struggle of conflicting creeds--all these shall sink and die under the silent inflexibility of its authority!
Cesar came to all appointments at the expected hour; but if he were kept waiting, he left ten minutes later with an inflexibility which nothing ever changed.
Evidently he heard and judged, and weighed the pros and cons with the inflexibility of a Minos who had crossed the Styx of commerce when he quitted the Quai des Morfondus for his little third storey.
The generalinflexibility of character of the race, and their abhorrence of the restraints of civilised life, make them very intractable subjects.
The inflexibilityof character, although probably organic, is seen to be sometimes overcome.
Though we are thus far agreed with respect to the inflexibility and intolerance of Christian zeal, yet as to the principle from which it was derived, we are, toto coelo, divided in opinion.
Indecision of the Seigneurs of Geneva--inflexibility of Calvin.
Indecision of the Seigneurs of Geneva--inflexibility of Calvin, 128 CCII.
His high and haughty carriage was not lost on his captors, who often bent their looks on his person, with eyes which, while they lost none of their inflexibility of purpose, plainly betrayed their admiration of the stranger's daring.
It was at such moments that the stern inflexibility of his will was manifest; and his passion towered in proportion to provocation.
In his reception-rooms he was easily polite and courteously affable; but his dignity and the inflexibility of his features never relaxed.
Every one came to Miss Agatha when an unpleasant situation had to be faced: she faced it so resolutely, with the inflexibility of justice untempered with mercy.
William coughed gently, and assumed an expression which he hoped conveyed the air of inflexibility he deemed suited to the responsible position thus conferred on him.
She had nothing left to dread but the inflexibility of Mr Delvile, and hardly any thing even to hope but the recovery of his lady.
I confess that it is with this part of his work, in spite of its hardness and inflexibility of tone, that I personally sympathize most.
He confesses freely his own inflexibility and censoriousness.
Inflexibility degenerates into insolence, prejudice into fanaticism, and near-sightedness into blindness.
But when power is to be seized by assault, and a dictatorship arbitrarily exercised, the mechanicalinflexibility of such a mind is useful rather than detrimental.
It was not an easy task to divert our hero from his designs at any time of life; but, since his confinement, his inflexibility was become almost insurmountable.
Let me not suffer the most mortifying of all repulses, that of slighted friendship; but kindly sacrifice your resentment and inflexibility to the request of one who is at all times ready to sacrifice his life for your honour and advantage.
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