Literary notes about Resistive (AI summary)
In literature, the term "resistive" is employed to evoke the concept of an inherent strength or capacity to withstand external challenges, whether those challenges are physical, chemical, or psychological. It is frequently used to describe a diminished vitality in the face of illness or aging—for instance, when one’s resistive power dwindles with advancing years [1] or during a crisis of health when the body’s defenses falter [2, 3]. At the same time, "resistive" appears in descriptions of materials or substances that exhibit durability and an ability to fend off decay or damage [4, 5, 6]. The term also extends to character portrayals, capturing moments of stubborn defiance or reluctance to yield, as seen when individuals demonstrably oppose care or intervention [7, 8, 9]. In these varied contexts, "resistive" enriches prose by drawing a parallel between physical endurance, defensive potential, and even behavioral intransigence [10, 11, 12].
- AS THE YEARS GO ON The first thing that a man begins to lose through the inroads of age is his resistive power.
— from Keeping Fit All the Way How to Obtain and Maintain Health, Strength and Efficiency by Walter Camp - —The super-excitation of nerves consequent upon the more or less general erethism that is induced, lessens resistive vitality.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh - His last illness was the result of a cold, and his advanced age, eighty-seven, left him little resistive vitality.
— from Makers of Modern Medicine by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh - This metal is very resistive; it does not oxidize in air or moisture.
— from Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes - The name of ironstone remained to that class of pottery which is strong and resistive.
— from British Manufacturing Industries: Pottery, Glass and Silicates, Furniture and Woodwork. by John Hungerford Pollen - This polish is glass hard, transparent, of finer luster, and resistive.
— from Henley's Twentieth Century Formulas, Recipes and Processes - He was very resistive to the taking of a bath, and suddenly snapped at the attendants who cared for him.
— from Studies in Forensic Psychiatry by Bernard Glueck - She was resistive to any care or examination.
— from Benign Stupors: A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by August Hoch - When interfered with, she was resistive and sometimes let herself fall out of bed.
— from Benign Stupors: A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by August Hoch - Orders were repeated for the men to keep as close together as possible, knee to knee, so that they might acquire the resistive strength of granite.
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola - Yet Paris, in the delirium of despair, seemed to acquire a fresh resistive strength.
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola - He was sustained by an unconquerable will, a resistive power that would have enabled him to carry a mountain.
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola
