inflexibleness

"Ch‘ang," said he, "is wanton; where do you get at his inflexibleness?"

"Ch'ang," said he, "is wanton; where do you get at his inflexibleness?"

This accounts in a measure for his coolness, his self-possession, and that kind of uncompromising rectitude or inflexibleness that marks his career, and that he so lauds in his essays.