adamantine

Example Sentences

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Akira is not so much an obstacle, then, as he is a diamond in the rough, a permanent part of Takiko and her adamantine resolve to live on her own terms.

From Los Angeles Times

He’s since backed off a bit from his adamantine opposition, but the core of his position was concern that the measure would add to inflation.

From Los Angeles Times

George’s response to these tumults was, in Roberts’s phrase, “adamantine inflexibility.”

From Washington Post

Koirala, a Bollywood star, brings a taut poise to a mother whose veneer seems adamantine until the Duttas walk in the door.

From New York Times

“She has this sort of adamantine presence onstage. And that weird ability that great actors have to sort of say, ‘OK, now you’re all going to feel this because I’m feeling it,’” he said.

From New York Times