Literary notes about Resistant (AI summary)
The term “resistant” in literature often appears as a multifaceted descriptor, its usage extending from tangible, physical properties to metaphorical expressions of inner strength. On one hand, authors employ it to characterize materials that endure external forces—for example, describing a plastic embedded with resistance ([1]), chestnut trees that withstand disease ([2], [3]), or even as practical advice for handling materials in technical contexts ([4]). On the other hand, “resistant” conveys an abstract quality of defiance or inner fortitude, as seen in the evocation of warm, inward courage ([5]), a will that burns with stubborn determination ([6]), and characters who consciously embody a state of proud resistance ([7], [8]). Moreover, its use spans varied disciplines, from the physical challenges noted in military strategy ([9]) to the broader cultural and social dynamics addressed by thinkers like Émile Durkheim ([10]) and Inazo Nitobe ([11]).
- The spindizzy would have to be disassembled and checked, and the main leads, embedded in time-resistant plastic, would have to be examined.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. Bone - These are very blight resistant, and rarely lose a branch to this disease after winter injury.
— from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting - These resistant chestnuts are doing very well in Italy so far.
— from Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting - To light more resistant materials, use a candle plus tightly rolled or twisted paper which has been soaked in gasoline.
— from Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services - And I felt my fingers work and my hands interlock: I felt, too, an inward courage, warm and resistant.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë - She perceived that her will had blazed up, stubborn and resistant.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin - Each of them felt proudly resistant, and neither looked at the other, while they awaited Sir James's entrance.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot - But he remained mutely resistant, and she added: "What are you going to do?
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton - Activity in War is movement in a resistant medium.
— from On War by Carl von Clausewitz - The medium in which we thus move is less opaque and less resistant: we feel ourselves to be, and we are, more at our ease there.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim - In Japan as in Italy 'the rude manners of the Middle Ages made of man a superb animal, wholly militant and wholly resistant.'
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe