adamantine

Example Sentences

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The task requires agility, and an adamantine core.

From New York Times

Erin Doherty’s Anne has a world-class grumpy resting face, radiating adamantine disdain for the mundanity of life as one of the royal spares, rather than the heirs.

From The Guardian

At its worst, however, Thatcher’s adversarial approach to politics made her seem adamantine and unfeeling, which created enmity among a meaningful portion of the industrial working class.

From New York Times

He was adamantine: the Culture would stay until everything else in the universe was like them.

From The Guardian

“As trilogies of recent vintage go, these books,” our critic Dwight Garner writes, “strike me as a stark, modern, adamantine new skyscraper on the literary horizon.”

From New York Times