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- adverb In a
resistant manner.
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Examples
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The same attentive, complex, and creative readings of literary texts that we develop in our classrooms may, at least in some cases, be self-consciously turned or "troped" to help shed new light on even the most resistantly complicated facets of the world surrounding
Critical Presentism 2002
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The recent rise of India in American popular culture represents one more way in which-however resistantly-the national imagination works through the logic of egalitarian democracy and comes just a bit closer to accepting the oneness of humanity.
PopMatters 2009
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The recent rise of India in American popular culture represents one more way in which-however resistantly-the national imagination works through the logic of egalitarian democracy and comes just a bit closer to accepting the oneness of humanity.
PopMatters 2009
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Poor Sister Shortcake has enough hair for several villages, so it was an uphill battle trying to do her hair, what with me having no official hairdressing skills, and her having resistantly huge hair.
Weddingbee 2009
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