How to Use uncompromising in a Sentence

uncompromising

adjective
  • They were uncompromising in their demands.
  • Nolan re-conceives the war movie on his own uncompromising terms.
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Jan. 2018
  • Our standards are still steep, and our vengeance for those that fail to meet them is still swift and uncompromising.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 17 Feb. 2021
  • Both his books and talks are in-your-face, provocative, and uncompromising.
    — Christian Stadler, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • Yet as flat as her voice has often been, her words have been forceful and uncompromising.
    — New York Times, 21 July 2022
  • But for an uncompromising farmer on a hillside vineyard, two tons an acre was enough.
    — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2021
  • Part of coming into her own was learning not to play it safe and to be uncompromising.
    — Nikki Delamotte, cleveland.com, 19 Dec. 2017
  • Helmut stood out and resonated to me so much as [his work] was so pure and uncompromising.
    — Mark Holgate, Vogue, 15 June 2018
  • This ruthlessness must be met with bold, uncompromising action to save life rather than end it.
    — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 12 Oct. 2021
  • Its uncompromising musical language seems ahead of its time by two decades or more.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 May 2024
  • But then, all its hope lies in Anne’s face, as uncompromising as an early crocus.
    — Stephanie Zacharek, Time, 6 May 2022
  • Here, Karol is ready to move on from heartache, welcoming an uncompromising new era.
    — Isabelia Herrera, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The movie’s uncompromising force is all of a piece with Chen’s best performances.
    — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 27 Aug. 2020
  • But is the hope that uncompromising demands are the best path to the greatest positive change?
    — David Marchesephoto Illustration By Bráulio Amado, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Hill and Yovanovitch were fierce, smart, and uncompromising in their insistence on facts.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2019
  • And then there was Pei, who was both meticulous and uncompromising.
    — Dallas News, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The combined effect is an uncompromising homage to two distinct places.
    — Garrett Snyder, Los Angeles Magazine, 12 Dec. 2017
  • In both her life and her art, the 73-year-old rock icon is unapologetic and uncompromising.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 27 Dec. 2019
  • His team’s tireless running and uncompromising habit of nicking three points have been lost a little under his watch.
    — Henry Flynn, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • And his exacting roasting system is a bar to beat, pushing both science and art in the name of an uncompromising cup.
    — Jeff Csatari, Popular Mechanics, 5 Dec. 2019
  • Taylor was known as one of the pioneers of the free jazz movement, and was seen as a groundbreaking and uncompromising artist.
    — kansascity, 7 Apr. 2018
  • People are born with the instinct to fight against their own death, to struggle with their last breath against even the most unavoidable and uncompromising ends.
    — Rachel Lance, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2020
  • The best thing about Any Man is the uncompromising cruelty of its predator.
    — Lisa Miller, The Cut, 8 July 2018
  • The mission of the company was to support the uncompromising vision of its authors.
    — Katie Song, Variety, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Existing in this sort of grey area was often the necessary path and sometimes a compromise one had to take to be able to make uncompromising art.
    — Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 18 May 2022
  • At the time, one of them was staying focused on doing the work and building up my professional name in this fickle and uncompromising city.
    — Dominique Fluker, Essence, 24 Oct. 2023
  • What would the world look like if the kinds of militant, uncompromising views Roiphe is grappling with had controlling power?
    — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 16 Feb. 2018
  • Baldwin argued that King had to confront the meaning of a new, uncompromising spirit in the movement.
    — Eddie S. Glaude, The New Yorker, 19 June 2020
  • But in Hearne’s Belfast that power still prevailed, and Moore’s picture of it is an uncompromising one.
    — Alexander McCall Smith, WSJ, 3 June 2022
  • The music would sound nothing like Morgan’s band, of course, but be just weird enough to represent at least one kind of uncompromising career path.
    — Steve Appleford, SPIN, 23 Apr. 2022

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