Adjective : Even when their country was occupied, the people of Norway remained unbowed. From Dictionary.com.
Finally, at the urging of her lawyer, she struck a plea bargain for a shorter sentence, and ended up being "unbowed" by her experience. From Wordnik.com. [Mathaba Highlights Briefing] Reference
Arundhati Roy emerged from jail last week unbowed. From Wordnik.com. ['A FEARFULNESS IN THE AIR'] Reference
We're bloodied, as the poet says, but not unbowed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 24, 2001] Reference
Despite the challenges facing him, Clegg's unbowed. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
In my fantasy, Maher appears chastened but unbowed. From Wordnik.com. [Earl Pomerantz: The Certainty of Belief] Reference
Birtukan beaten, bludgeoned and bloodied, but unbowed. From Wordnik.com. [Alemayehu G. Mariam: Ethiopia: Birtukan, Invictus! (Unconquered)] Reference
Those assaults left the industry unbowed-until last week. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke And Fire] Reference
But those who ventured out appeared unbowed by Taliban threats. From Wordnik.com. [Deadly attacks, signs of fraud mar Afghan vote] Reference
Yet the medic stood unbowed as the wave broke upon him in full. From Wordnik.com. [Voodoo Planet] Reference
Bloodied but unbowed, the show should retain its strange appeal. From Wordnik.com. [Imus Is Back!] Reference
With unbowed heads and folded arms, gaze on the unhallowed scene!. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
Under the bludgeoning of chance, my head is bloodied but unbowed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2001] Reference
Thereupon Lord BRASSEY, his brow bloody but unbowed, intimated that. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, March 12, 1919] Reference
I guess that headline probably said it best, "bloodied, but unbowed.". From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 8, 2005] Reference
We're bloodied, as the poet says, but not unbowed -- I mean, not bowed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 23, 2001] Reference
He lived in such dreadful poverty and yet his spirit was quite unbowed. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
I faced the fallen angel cautiously, my posture unthreatening but unbowed. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Beat]
Who can wonder at the authority of the ancients, unbowed by an antiquity behind?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
In an interview with The New York Times, Joel "Clueless" Klein remained "unbowed.". From Wordnik.com. [Alan Singer: Bloomberg and Klein Fail the Test] Reference
But wait, yes, he returned to the stage unbloodied and unbowed his spatula intact. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 21, 2004] Reference
You know, you have Iranians who are bruised and battered and bloodied, but unbowed. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 15, 2009] Reference
Their spirits unbowed and in those who braved the bullets so that others might live. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 12, 2009] Reference
That man, Corporal Ishmael Cox, is still unbowed and refusing today, living in Missouri. From Wordnik.com. [President And Pres Ramos At Manila American Cemetery] Reference
Downstairs, the television crews converged on Lawton, who, though bloody, was still unbowed. From Wordnik.com. [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]
She would regularly go head to head with men, always remaining strong, powerful, and unbowed. From Wordnik.com. [Jennifer Worick: As My World Turned] Reference
She'd been so sure he would come back — maybe wounded, maybe bloody but relatively unbowed. From Wordnik.com. [Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]]
He did it to Bush's face, unflinching and unbowed by the audience's muted, humorless response. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Daou: Ignoring Colbert: A Small Taste of the Media's Power to Choose the News] Reference
Apparently with Malone's continuing support, an unbowed Diller arranged a CBS takeover in 1994. From Wordnik.com. [The Twilight of the Moguls] Reference
At an impromptu news conference after the verdicts on Tuesday, the former governor was unbowed. From Wordnik.com. [A Blagojevich retrial? Don't expect smiles from White House] Reference
But it was not in reference to this incident that HENLEY wrote, "My head is bloody but unbowed.". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, December 19, 1917] Reference
Willie Downey's head was bloody but unbowed; three seventh-graders he had vanquished in one round. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
BROWNSTEIN: Bloodied, but unbowed, they feel that they are in position to begin to recover in 2006. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2005] Reference
A white-skinned figure walked out there, moving into the black storm, unbowed by the terrible wind. From Wordnik.com. [Spirit Gate] Reference
BROWNSTEIN: Bloodied but unbowed, they feel that they are in a position to begin to recover in 2006. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 23, 2005] Reference
Psychologists might call it denial, but another way to look at it may be as the zeal of a Methodist missionary, unbroken and unbowed. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary Clinton Goes To War] Reference
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