Tom never did the same sort of foolish things as Maggie, having a wonderful instinctive discernment of what would turn to his advantage or disadvantage; and so it happened, that though he was much more wilful and inflexible than Maggie, his mother hardly ever called him naughty.
Under these average boyish physiognomies that she seems to turn off by the gross, she conceals some of her most rigid, inflexible purposes, some of her most unmodifiable characters; and the dark-eyed, demonstrative, rebellious girl may after all turn out to be a passive being compared with this pink-and-white bit of masculinity with the indeterminate features.
She simply continued to be mild in her temper, inflexible in her judgment, disposed to admonish her husband, and able to frustrate him by stratagem.
We cannot be sure that any natures, however inflexible or peculiar, will resist this effect from a more massive being than their own.
As for him, the need of accommodating himself to her nature, which was inflexible in proportion to its negations, held him as with pincers.
Poor Rosamond for months had begun to associate her husband with feelings of disappointment, and the terribly inflexible relation of marriage had lost its charm of encouraging delightful dreams.
"I hear you are not well," she said, standing in the narrow entrance of the loop and looking down with the inflexible face of one who is determined to do good at the motionless and apparently sleeping Scrap.
Jealous, possessive, resentful, inflexible, self-indulgent and GREedy.
"Universities have been largely inflexible about anything other than the standard time table, which is you kill yourself for years and only then would you consider getting pregnant," said Wendy Williams, a human development professor at Cornell who co-authored the study with her husband, Stephen Ceci.
More importantly, monetary policy can palliate, but not cure, structural problems of low growth and inflexible markets.
Most people who are obese are metabolically inflexible.
'By contrast, Greece, Spain and Portugal have continued to struggle with double-digit unemployment and slow economic growth, partly due to inflexible labour market regulations that have proven difficult to reform in recent years.
Inflexible hours, especially combined with low wages, place demands on employees that leave them starved for time, both for themselves and for their families.
For scientists have discovered that old bees have trouble finding their way to new hives as their learning behavior becomes increasingly inflexible.
