Uncompromising

The word "uncompromising" sounds like the perfect word to describe Tilda Swinton. ❋ John Farr (2011)

Now, however, the truth is set out in uncompromising terms. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"No more fugue" -- there was a finality in the phrase uncompromising as the "no more sea" of the Apocalyptic vision. ❋ John Meade Falkner (1895)

The snow lay in uncompromising whiteness, thick over all the world – a kindly shelter for the young grain and covering for the soil; but Fleda's spirits, just then in another mood, saw in it only the cold refusal to hope, and the barren check to exertion. ❋ Unknown (1854)

Suddenly the lightning and thunder of at least twenty fusils burst upon our astonished senses from the gully, and awoke us to a startling consciousness of imminent danger, magnified beyond conception, by the almost magical appearance of more than one hundred warriors, erect in uncompromising enmity - both before and on either side of us, at the terrifying distance (since measured) of thirty steps. ❋ Unknown (1844)

WASHINGTON Reuters - A testy President Barack Obama on Tuesday expressed frustration at his own Democrats for attacking him over his tax-cut deal with Republicans, who he called uncompromising "hostage takers." ❋ Unknown (2010)

David Barton, the Christian right's all-but-official presidential historian, calls Brownback "uncompromising" -- the highest praise in a movement that considers intransigence next to godliness. ❋ Unknown (2006)

"Folks use the word uncompromising as if it were always a praiseworthy thing to be. ❋ Henry Kitchell Webster (1903)

Executive to assert as they, best of all nations, could assert, now and at once in terms uncompromising, unanswerable, that the ground taken up by international consent in the past generation must be held now and hereafter, and accepted as an essential basis of the final settlement. ❋ Various (N/A)

Finding that the nobility still hesitated at the idea of uncompromising hostility to the house of Lorraine, he allied himself more firmly with the popular party, and found an able lieutenant in the baker Giuseppe Dolfi (1818-1869), an honest and whole-hearted enthusiast who had great influence with the common people. ❋ Various (N/A)

Celoron spoke in the name of the King of France and he spoke in terms uncompromising enough. ❋ George McKinnon Wrong (1904)

A certain military precision of manner was attached to the whole bearing of the man, -- his thin figure was well-built and upright, showing no tendency to feebleness, -- his shoulders were set square, and his head was poised in a manner that might have been called uncompromising, if not obstinate. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)

Lourdes; and then the Bishops of Poitiers and Evreux, who are both known as uncompromising Ultramontanists and passionate adversaries of Cardinal ❋ ��mile Zola (1871)

My costume may be described as uncompromising, for it had been explained to me that there were no paths but real rough bush walking; so I dispensed with all little feminine adornments even to the dearly-loved chignon, tucked my hair away as if I was going to put on a bathing-cap, and covered it with a Scotch bonnet. ❋ Unknown (1871)