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A true New Englander, thoughtful, acute, reticent, and opinionated; yet earnest withal, intensely patriotic, and often humorous, despite a touch of Puritan austerity.
"I am a general underwriter," returned the opinionated pilot; "my wife shall mend every hole I make in your sails, with a needle no bigger than a hair, and with such a palm as a fairy's thimble!"
He was very impulsive, opinionated, self-confident, and accustomed to speak contemptuously of the old medical science and those who practiced it.
His plan for renting Washington's farm fell through, by his account because it was so poor, and ultimately he settled for a time near Baltimore, where he underwent such experiences as an opinionated Englishman with new methods would be likely to meet.
He was direct, opinionated, bristling with energy, one of those tireless workers who disdain their youth and treat it as a disease.
He was opinionated, though not egotistical; revered authority, took himself seriously, and was a hero worshiper lacking humor and imagination.
He is perceptibly opinionated, and would have carried things with a high hand, whether as one of the government or one of the governed.
Shut away from intercourse, the alien becomes more alienated, and the American more opinionated, with results that may easily breed trouble.
A fortnight ago she would have protested and said, "You are not old, you are not opinionated," in her eager, girlish manner.
They are jealous of her power, impatient of her authority, find fault with her nurses, and accuse her of being arbitrary, opinionated, severe and capricious.
He was brusque and opinionated, but he was wise too, and, having wings, knew the world; and she never tired of hearing of his travels.
Jerome was a conceited, opinionated fellow for whom I felt merely the unwilling respect which I entertained for all persons older than myself.
The first was a stubborn old Welshman, hot, opinionated, and obstinate, but withal a man who did a great deal of good, though not without making some noise about it.
He was obliged by his father, who was a stern and somewhat opinionated old man, to sleep alone, as a means of overcoming this fear; and if he tried to steal from his own bed to that of his brothers, he was frightened back by his father, who watched for him and chased him in some fantastic disguise.
He is endowed with "the marvelous impudence of opinionated youth"; that of the undergraduate who says, "the world did not exist till I created it."
We are conditioned by the angry and excited controversy over the New Deal; we are opinionated, variant, prejudiced, individual, argumentative.
Have in your madness reason enough to guide your extravagances; and forget not to be excessively opinionated and obstinate.
The reason is, that he was opinionated, obstinate, and enthusiastic; and found enthusiasts like himself, with whom he associated.
It is later, when he has taken to reading, and has arrived at the stage when his spelling is more regular, his grammar fairly correct, and his words flow more freely from his pen, that he becomes opinionated, and informs those to whom he writes what he thinks.
The opinionated person, the crank, the fanatic, as well as the merely prejudiced, all refuse to open their minds and give any particular consideration to such kinds of evidence.
For my own part, at any rate, I felt no prompting to argue against it, being sufficiently "opinionated" to appreciate a difficulty which some obstinate people experience in altering their convictions as circumstances change, or accepting the failure of a cause as proof of its injustice.
I felt rather doubtful of this; but the skipper was a dreadfully opinionated, obstinate man, and I knew that argument, or anything approaching it, would be worse than useless with him.
It was an egregious mistake of self-willed and opinionated men, to suppose that the maintenance of our holy religion was sufficiently provided for by the clearness of its evidence.
The ghastly tale which they told could not have been utterly unread even by the obtuse and opinionated mind of the vain mother.
That timid left foot turned traitor, and I came down solidly on my knee, and the knee on a pebble as relentless as prejudice and as opinionated as ignorance.