Sentence Examples:
Even prosperous people in comparatively humble life generally become arrogant and opinionated, and like to have things in their own way.
Those who were not in political sympathy with the party in power characterized the President as an opinionated executive, and could see little or no hope in a personal appeal.
All this is enough to make the old man opinionated, since he finds, on all these matters of first-rate importance, he knows more than the rest of the world.
"It is very nice to say you are fond of them, but it is perfectly absurd to make so much of them; it only encourages them to be forward and opinionated, and puts them out of their place."
All this is enough to make the old man opinionated, since he finds, on all these matters of first-rate importance, he knows more than the rest of the world.
The squire was too self-sufficient and opinionated to be influenced by the advice of friends or the warning of those who had suddenly become his enemies.
He was not positive or opinionated, and he did not deny that at certain moments he pondered and hesitated long before he decided on his course.
Remove these articles, and it would have been difficult to distinguish him from countless thousands of other inefficient and opinionated individuals.
They produced, meantime, the most intensely human and, in that sense, the most intensely opinionated religion ever invented.'
Of the two, Emily was considered to be, in most respects, the more talented, but she was obstinate and opinionated.
Even when Goldsmith was opinionated and wrong, Johnson's contradiction was in a manner gentle.
That story, little as I heard of it, was told with an opinionated confidence I wish my poor father had something of.
He was strongly opinionated upon the point that man and the other kingdoms of existence are under the control of nature and that, after all, man is only a social animal, often very much of an animal.
We are to hold opinion and not become opinionated, a thing discovered to be difficult in an extreme degree.
Far from being opinionated, in the offensive sense of the word, the ultimate determination, however, was after "having taken counsel from himself."
And now the fitting time had come for Editor Westbrook to play the oracle and silence his opinionated contributor.
If I have been in their confidence you may say that I make a strange use of my privilege in serving them up to feed the prejudices of an opinionated American.
It will recall to many a man his experience in teaching pupils, and in managing their opinionated and self-willed parents.
Fortunately all those to whom Janice went in her secret canvass were not like the opinionated old minister.
"Yes, they're handy in sickness and times when work presses, but they do get queer and opinionated from having their own way, I suppose."
I shall sigh for their charms and return a critical and opinionated bachelor, judging all girls by the novels I have read in my solitude.
It will recall to many a man his experience in teaching pupils, and in managing their opinionated and self-willed parents.
You're an opinionated slave driver, a bully, an intellectual tyrant, and the best pathologist in this center.
His tour was a personal triumph; but the very voters who hung eagerly on his speeches felt him to be too impulsive and opinionated to be trusted with presidential powers.
I tell you what, Theophilus, you're getting entirely too opinionated for a man of your years.
He has a good head, and is quick at his studies, a quiet, well-behaved boy, a little obstinate, a bit opinionated, but that is no harm in a boy, thinks the old man.
Neither did she return the confidence and tell Oliver how she wished her father could see some things in as clear a light, and be more gentle and less opinionated.
The inside talk on campuses was: love him or hate him, but think twice before you cross the opinionated bastard.
The self-educated man, we know, is apt to be perverse and opinionated; so I trust my readers will make due allowance if they notice such faults in this book.
Morris was very old, and somewhat opinionated; so all that his master could succeed in, was to insist that he should only keep back half of Robert's wages, till the sum was paid.
At these moments we do not stop to remember that people are opinionated also on the island of Yap.
He was an opinionated man, and a good deal depended upon his being able to correctly locate a sound just then.
Of the two, Emily was considered to be the more talented, but she was obstinate and opinionated.
He was too broad and high a soul to be opinionated in any narrow, selfish sense; but he would stand for a conviction till "the crack of doom."
There were others, I am sure, to whom he appeared no better than a tedious old man, opinionated, gossiping, not over clean.
If you looked at its reflection in a mirror, you saw, written twice over, in a firm, opinionated hand, the name, "Mary de Courcy."
You'll find it helpful to be less haughty when you speak, less opinionated; your manner is very much against you.
Even the most opinionated of professional railroad men, emphatically as he might in public deny it, quietly yielded as soon as might be.
The first-mentioned rhyme may be genuine, as it voices an opinionated brutality and boldness which was not uncommon in dealing with the future life eighty years ago.
That men do exist who are 'opinionated,' in the sense that their opinions are self-willed, is unfortunately a fact that must be admitted, no matter what one's notion of truth in general may be.
All the proprieties of poetry are violated, not from an inward law of dissent, but from an opinionated dislike of established methods.
Perhaps her mother saw this, and saw also that there was nothing in the Friends' society to prevent her from growing more and more opinionated.
He laid up, for a future dinner table, a condemnation of this young dramatist, as too "opinionated," too "crude."
In looking over the literature on emotions, one is impressed by its theoretical and opinionated trend.
Now, she is led astray by a biased opinion of the time, which owes its effectiveness to the single fact that the opinionated resolutely turn their back upon all facts.
Charles, it is said, though lamenting the death of his old servant, made no attempt to save the life of one who, though opinionated and mistaken, had served his King with affectionate fidelity.
There was a song that Mary used to sing, a song he loved, written by a man for whom and for whose writings in those youthful opinionated days Andrew felt a hatred that was almost fear.
Is it strange that under this training he acquired a taste for strong drink, and became opinionated and perverse?
Civility often hides half its understanding, and when it meets with an opinionated man who defends the bad side, spares him the disgrace of giving way.
It is the temper of a vigorous, independent, opinionated, free-spoken yet sometimes suspicious people among whom every individual feels in himself the impulse to rule.