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Definition
to give in, give way, or give up
- She wanted the sight of his unyielding face, the confident face looking at her with the hint of a smile.2.8 Part 2 Chapter 8 — By Our Love (16% in)
- Ever since he could remember, he had been told that his face was ugly, because it was unyielding, and cruel, because it was expressionless.1.2 Part 1 Chapter 2 — The Chain (11% in)
- You have been called cruel for your unyielding integrity.2.3 Part 2 Chapter 3 — White Blackmail (82% in)
- It's that unyielding, intractable attitude of yours.2.4 Part 2 Chapter 4 — The Sanction of the Victim (16% in)
- She had faced it, through moments of blinded stillness, in a contest between an unmoving decision and an unyielding pain, a pain to be fought by acknowledgment, by saying: All right, even this.3.4 Part 3 Chapter 4 — Anti-Life (51% in)
- When men reduce their virtues to the approximate, then evil acquires the force of an absolute, when loyalty to an unyielding purpose is dropped by the virtuous, it's picked up by scoundrels-and you get the indecent spectacle of a cringing, bargaining, traitorous good and a self-righteously uncompromising evil.3.7 Part 3 Chapter 7 — "This is John Galt Speaking" (78% in)
- She felt with sudden certainty that they feared the precision of his face, the unyielding clarity of his features, the look of being an entity, a look of asserting existence.3.8 Part 3 Chapter 8 — The Egoist (98% in)
There are no more uses of "yield" in Atlas Shrugged.
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