transigent

Example Sentences

• "But in the second half scientists will undoubtedly make progress in synthesizing the hormones, the mysterious secretions of the ductless glands which regulate the make-up of our personalities, determining whether we are to be big or little, energetic or lazy, virile or effeminate, aggressive or transigent, high-strung or lethargic."
• "Armed Forces Minister General Enrique Prez y Prez, under whom the army has become more transigent, promised last week that the armed forces "will respect the popular will.""
• "As the editors of the Gazeta da Tarde explained their position, “Intransigent in principles, we are, however, transigent in facts.”"
• "The internal contradictions resulting from the lack of distinction between the religious and the socio-political spheres of action had been perceived by the more intelligent and best intentioned, and this accounted for the perplexities of Toniolo and many others, both intransigent and transigent."
• "He is Everyman in exile, the exile in every man. A transigent man, easy, warm, thinking, he makes up in little acts of imagination for frustrations not of his making."
• "“I think Bruno mainly appeals to a small minority, Italians who are at the margins of society,” said Paolo Fabbri, a professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna. “Ours is such a transigent culture, we are known for ‘transformismo,’ going along to get along.”"