Literary notes about resilient (AI summary)
The term resilient is employed in literature with remarkable versatility, often serving as a bridge between the physical and the metaphorical. Authors use it to describe tangible properties—such as flooring that deflects sound [1], walkways that yield yet support the weight of one’s steps [2], or materials that bounce back like pliant springs [3]—while at the same time evoking inner strength and recoverability. Characters are depicted as having a resilient spirit or nature, able to rise swiftly from setbacks [4][5] or embody the vibrant vitality of youth [6], and even entire economies are characterized as resilient in the face of adversity [7][8]. This dual usage emphasizes both the elastic quality of physical substances and the steadfast, defiant quality of human will.
- Westervelt tried to listen for footsteps, but the resilient flooring prevented him from guessing which way the ex-spacer had gone.
— from D-99: a science-fiction novel by H. B. (Horace Bowne) Fyfe - His legs moved smoothly, surely, and unhurriedly, carrying him aimlessly along the resilient walkway, under the warm glow of the street lights.
— from Anything You Can Do! by Randall Garrett - The pastern joints above his striped hoofs were resilient as pliant springs.
— from Tharon of Lost Valley by Vingie E. (Vingie Eve) Roe - Her spirit was too resilient for futile moping, and her purpose too firmly held to be abandoned on one reverse.
— from The Heart of Thunder Mountain by Edfrid A. Bingham - In all his conversations with Lucy, Poyntz had found a keen, resilient brain that answered to his thoughts in precisely the way he wished.
— from A Lost Cause by Guy Thorne - Resilient youth, like a coiled spring that has been loosed, was off with a bound.
— from Mavericks by William MacLeod Raine - Thus far the economy has been resilient, and growth should continue at the same level in 2004.
— from The 2004 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency - Nevertheless, the economy has proved to be remarkably resilient.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents
