strong-minded
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Strong-minded woman that she was, she laid aside her plans for a new novel—“Adela,” about Jane Eyre’s pupil, Mr. Rochester’s daughter—and went to work, fast, with an assistant, on a collection of her nonfiction.
From The New Yorker • Mar. 5, 2017
Strong-minded and strong-willed, the 126-pound Floresca is looking to make school history and become the school's first state champion since Tim Hester won the 189-pound class in 2008.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 8, 2013
Strong-minded men stated strong-minded opinions, and for the most part they differed only in detail and in intensity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Strong-minded Foster Dulles was so toweringly No. 1 at State that No. 2 inevitably found himself uncomfortably overshadowed�especially after having been No. 1 for four years in his own Massachusetts bailiwick.
From Time Magazine Archive
"And Womankind, surely, Mr. Gladstone?" subjoined the Strong-minded Woman, glaring reproachfully through her spectacles at the Anti-Woman's-Rights Premier.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 8th 1893 by Various
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