unbending

She’s watchful, she’s contained, inhabiting the character’s resilience and giving her a core of unbending steel.

An ironic observer with an unbending will, he prefers the quiet freedom of his own thoughts to the aggressive clamor of those around him who mistakenly believe they can control how he thinks.

“I changed some things. But I was unbending on the bar, especially since it was in the renderings, and they had shown it on social media.”

It reminded him that pure, unbending clarity of purpose existed, just not in himself.

It concludes, “Beyond our pain and mourning for all of the people there and their loved ones around the world, we are motivated by an unbending will to stand for our common humanity. We stand for freedom, justice, dignity and peace for all people — and a deep desire to stop more bloodshed. We refuse to tell future generations the story of our silence, that we stood by and did nothing.”