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But not the women of the Old Guard, and the women were the implacable and inflexible power behind the social throne.

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 Meanings and Examples of INFLEXIBLE
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inflexible
 a.  rigid; stiff; incapable of being changed
Classic Sentence: (28 in 2 pages)
1  All I ask is, that Villefort will be firm and inflexible for the future in his political principles.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6. The Deputy Procureur du Roi.
2  Heaven is as inflexible as man, and the signature of the contract is fixed for this evening at nine o'clock.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 73. The Promise.
3  But instead of finding sympathy in the eyes of the doctor and his father, he only saw an expression as inflexible as that of Maximilian.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 103. Maximilian.
4  Oh, sir," said Villefort, arresting Maximilian by the arm, "if my father, the inflexible man, makes this request, it is because he knows, be assured, that Valentine will be terribly revenged.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 103. Maximilian.
5  I know his character; he is inflexible in any resolutions formed for his own interests.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 106. Dividing the Proceeds.
6  But not the women of the Old Guard, and the women were the implacable and inflexible power behind the social throne.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
7  But as ever before, the pagan harpooneers remained almost wholly unimpressed; or if impressed, it was only with a certain magnetism shot into their congenial hearts from inflexible Ahab's.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 124. The Needle.
8  She was inflexible about paying for her own seat; said she was in business now, and she wouldn't have a schoolboy spending his money on her.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3. Lena Lingard: III
9  He was, in a word, a man of the most inflexible firmness and stone-like coolness.
The Narrative of the Life By Frederick Douglass
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
10  To that mission its stern, inflexible, energetic elements, were well adapted; but, as a Christian, I look for another era to arise.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
11  For this reason, I suppose, they were now inflexible with one another; Mr. Jaggers being highly dictatorial, and Wemmick obstinately justifying himself whenever there was the smallest point in abeyance for a moment.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter LI
12  I handed it dutifully to my aunt, who was in her usual inflexible state of figure; and ventured a remonstrance with her on the subject of her sitting on a box.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 34. MY AUNT ASTONISHES ME
13  Rosa Dartle sat looking down upon her, as inflexible as a figure of brass.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 50. Mr. PEGGOTTY'S DREAM COMES TRUE
14  Whatever he might think of the Mormon doctrines, upon that one point he was inflexible.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER III. JOHN FERRIER TALKS WITH THE PROPHET
15  I have been a child of battle from my youth upward, high in my views, steady and inflexible in pursuing them.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX
Example Sentence:
1  The new plastic is completely inflexible.
2  The company's top-down management style made decision-making slow and inflexible.
3  The prime minister has adopted an inflexible position on immigration.
4  Workers insisted the new system was too inflexible.
5  Without integration, we are stuck in rigid, inflexible states and to face chaotic feeling or thought.
6  This brings me to the issue of organized labor in South Africa, which has been described as inflexible and a barrier to investment in some quarters.