| 单词 | self-opinionated |
| 例句 | “What I have tried to do,” Mr. McCowen said, “is peel away all those layers of respectability to get back to the violent, self-opinionated little boy that was always bursting out.” Alec McCowen, British Actor Who Played Saint and Fool, Dies at 91 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Unhappily he, in no small degree, depreciated this great gift, by clogging it with his own self-opinionated pronunciation of the language, instead of taking it as actually spoken. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z All this results from the existence of a military caste in this country which is as supercilious, self-opinionated, and autocratic as the military aristocracy of the most military ridden nation of Europe. Our National Defense: The Patriotism of Peace 2011-12-14T03:00:16.577Z And on he went, ruffled, but wrapped in self-opinionated vanity. The Making of William Edwards or The Story of the Bridge of Beauty 2011-12-07T03:00:17.867Z A wide gulf, truly, separates from their fathers these modern self-centred, self-opinionated young sportswomen and over-academised girls. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z Cats are very fanciful at times, and very self-opinionated. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z He could not see, he was so practical and so self-opinionated, that her heart was breaking while she was yielding with external calmness. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z She is not in the least self-opinionated nor vain. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z He was erratic, but very eloquent; self-opinionated, but well versed in the Scriptures; and in literary culture and intellectual force was the greatest man among the early Mormons. The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It 2011-07-21T02:00:23.213Z Young men were so intolerably self-opinionated now-a-days, she declared, that no doubt General Dorrien had not been unjustified in what he did. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z I am prepared for a theoretic refutation of all my positions, but shall probably be very self-opinionated till you have lived through this experience, as I have done. Guide to the Kindergarten and Intermediate Class and Moral Culture of Infancy. 2011-06-30T02:00:25.950Z She is one of those self-opinionated girls that reason never appeals to. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z Cold, abstracted, haughty, self-opinionated, he was a striking evidence of that mischievous system of interest, which, like a destructive insect in a noble structure, injures and often destroys the whole. Jasper Lyle 2011-02-19T03:01:11.070Z But Roy had developed, in spite of his real sterling worth and ability, into a headstrong, rather self-opinionated lad. The Girl Aviators and the Phantom Airship "And yet never vulgar," rejoined Upton,—"never affecting to be other than he is; and, stranger still, not self-opinionated and conceited." The Fortunes Of Glencore Although a man of some ability, was extremely pretentious and self-opinionated, and became involved in constant quarrels with the governor and the bishop. The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History No man was ever less self-opinionated or self-confident. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly How is it that she has suddenly become “so self-opinionated”? Maids Wives and Bachelors But you have grown self-willed and self-opinionated of late, and I must say, you couldn't have a graver fault! The Daltons, Volume II (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life Glencore is a strange, self-opinionated fellow, and has amongst other odd notions that of going the road he likes best himself. The Fortunes Of Glencore Most of them were cold, self-opinionated, ultra-artificial to her easy, poetic spirit. The "Genius" Music was at an extremely low ebb in the little place where we lived; there was nobody to give me any instruction but an old, conceited, self-opinionated organist. The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. The possibility of such a fate, like some hidden spectre, acts as a restraining influence, which holds in check the most lawless, stubborn, or self-opinionated. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century But she has no mercy on rebels who persist in their rebellion,—stubborn self-opinionated men, who in their incredible folly and presumption imagine themselves capable of correcting her.” One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford But generally it is useless and leads to many evils, especially if it causes one to be self-opinionated, refusing to seek the advice of anyone. A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy He was self-opinionated, suspicious, and of shallow judgment. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era But he was of the quiet, determined, self-opinionated type, who pursued his own way and said little. Learning to Fly A Practical Manual for Beginners She’s more!—she is the most arrogant, self-opinionated, self-complacent, vapid piece of humanity in this town or any other town. In Her Own Right I looked at Dudley—little, fat, pompous, and so self-opinionated that it fairly stuck out of him—and thought that if I had a fair chance I could take my dream girl from him. The La Chance Mine Mystery The people they will meet are of their own colour and race, no doubt fond of sport and pleasure, perhaps inclined to be a little self-opinionated, but solid grit at the bottom. Fruits of Queensland Be neither too fickle, too self-opinionated, nor too submissive. Cupology How to Be Entertaining She has been brought up in an atmosphere of adulation, and that has made her a little self-opinionated. Vixen, Volume II. That hair of hers never could be gray, you know, it's too self-opinionated in its sandiness. Vixen, Volume I. Marmy warned me that I might find her self-contained and even self-opinionated, but that is very different from anything mean or selfish. Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls Mr. Oracle Bluff is a self-opinionated, genial, whole-souled fellow.... English as She is Wrote Showing Curious Ways in which the English Language may be made to Convey Ideas or obscure them. But he was so completely self-opinionated and sure of himself that he generally drove his audience to thoughts of poisons that left no trace or even fire-arms. Mufti For when I look at fathers self-opinionated sour and austere, who think their sons having lovers a disgrace not to be borne, I am rather afraid of recommending the practice. Plutarch's Morals While Rhodes was already a man in mind and body, I was still a boy, and an ignorant, self-opinionated, argumentative one at that. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer Mr Ludlow, who was a country magistrate, was a stern, self-opinionated, and narrow-minded man, with very little of the milk of human kindness in his composition. Washed Ashore The Tower of Stormount Bay Usually the nativeʼs sojourn in Europe made him too self-opinionated to become a useful member of society. The Philippine Islands The Whigs are too superficial, too crotchety, and too self-opinionated to be whist-players; and, worse than all, too distrustful. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Oh! he’s the same hearty old self-opinionated fellow as ever. The Battery and the Boiler Adventures in Laying of Submarine Electric Cables I confess, indeed," with a sudden slight burst of vindictiveness, "that I never liked Dysart; idiotic sort of fool in my estimation, self-opinionated like all fools, and deucedly impertinent in that silent way of his. April's Lady A Novel “With any other man than Betts I should have less fear; but I know him to be an obstinate, self-opinionated, unprincipled fellow, and very ignorant at the same time,” he observed. The Three Admirals There was a crisis somewhere abroad, and a colleague understood to be self-opinionated; there was a crisis in the Church, and a bishopric vacant. Tristram of Blent An Episode in the Story of an Ancient House When this line is poor and badly formed, then a large Mount of Jupiter gives pride, excess of vanity, a self-confident and a self-opinionated person. Palmistry for All But you don't look to me quite self-confident or self-opinionated enough. The Rebellion of Margaret The speaker was Mrs. Purling, "heiress of the Purlings"; imperious, emphatic, self-opinionated, as women become who have had their own way all their lives through. The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood It is not courage, but sheer pugnacity and quarrelsomeness, and as exemplified in our modern history it means the dominion of a clique, the reign of a few self-opinionated officials. Armageddon—And After I've heard 'em till I'd like to shove their self-opinionated arguments down their throats, strip their clothes off their backs, and send them down to live with my pals, or starve with them. A Lost Leader The house belonged to a Prussian subject of the name of Probsfeld, a terribly self-opinionated North German, with all the bumptious proclivities of that thriving nation most fully developed.' The Great Lone Land A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America But he had the defects of his qualities, being self-opinionated, stubborn and inclined, as in the matter of the vote of the Belgian notables, to override opposition with a high hand. History of Holland They are self-opinionated and egoistical, with a conceit and assurance out of all proportion to their abilities. Epilepsy, Hysteria, and Neurasthenia Their Causes, Symptoms, & Treatment It is a pity he is so self-opinionated.” Mr. Fortescue An Andean Romance They are haughty and self-opinionated, and will never rest content with an inferior position. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 He is by no means too good for the rest of the world; but he is too conceited and self-opinionated to condescend to coöperate with them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 You will find him a self-opinionated fellow, and one used to having his own way. The Young Engineers in Mexico Or, Fighting the Mine Swindlers This was the argument of the Black Tyrones, but they were ever an unruly and self-opinionated regiment, and they allowed junior subalterns of four years' service to choose their wines. Short-Stories A narrow, purely personal view inevitably embodies an order of logic calculated to carry conviction; and Theresa, even in defeat, retained a degree of self-opinionated astuteness. Deadham Hard He was self-willed, self-opinionated, knew nothing about Indian warfare; in fact, got his shoulder straps through the enterprise of one of his officers and the treachery of a woman, in killing the Confederate Gen. Morgan. Reminiscences of a Pioneer Not one bit did I believe him; but I dared not contradict: doctors are so self-opinionated, so immovable in their dry, materialist views. Villette Slender, and loosely built, he had the large, sunken eyes of a dreamer, the narrow forehead of the self-opinionated, the delicate nostrils and mobile mouth of the neurotic temperament. The Wheel O' Fortune He was perfectly sincere, upright in every intention, incorruptible, fanatical, self-opinionated, austere, ascetic, stern and harsh. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire He stands out in marked and solitary individuality, apart from the great movement of the Civil War, apart from the supine acquiescence of the Restoration, a self-opinionated, unforgiving, and unforgetting man. Among My Books Second Series I love my father, you know, sir; I suppose some people here think him tiresome and self-opinionated, but he's like a boy, you always know where you are with him. The Cathedral But her mind was active and, stern, self-opinionated martinet that she was, she could not altogether crush the regrets that swarmed up in this last reckoning up of her life's activity. The Native Born or, the Rajah's People He was not submissive and cringing; and had he been so, Sir Gregory, to do him justice, would have been disgusted; but neither was he self-opinionated nor obstinate like Mr. Jobbles. The Three Clerks Linda is getting eaten up with conceit; she will be an intolerable woman by and by, so self-opinionated, and so pleased with herself. Light O' the Morning He soon became out and away the most popular man in Florence, notwithstanding the unworthy sneer of that ill-conditioned and self-opinionated monk, Girolamo Savonarola. The Tragedies of the Medici Had he been the Minister of the Interior himself, he could not have been more self-opinionated. The Czar's Spy The Mystery of a Silent Love All of them assume a pre-established harmony, inspired, imposed, or innate, by which the self-opinionated person, class, or community is orchestrated with the rest of mankind. Public Opinion But he talked a shade loudly and with an air curiously self-opinionated. This Freedom A more unchristian, disagreeable, self-opinionated, wrong-headed, objectionable young man I never came across in the whole course of my experience. Philistia I fancy I shall be a fellow of considerable importance, not in Texas simply, or in Mexico, but here—here in your own self-opinionated United States. Confession, or, the Blind Heart; a Domestic Story But although he believed in nothing he was not a morose or blase young man, nor self-opinionated, but on the contrary continually let himself be carried away. The Cossacks The feeble and self-opinionated never acknowledge an error, but the truly sincere can confess and retrieve their hallucinations and prejudices. My Young Alcides He would not say that to flatter her—he was far too self-opinionated and objective by nature. Women in Love What a fool you were—and how brutally self-opinionated! Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life The old statesman, to whom Germany owed so much, was deeply aggrieved by this lack of gratitude on the part of the self-opinionated young emperor, in view of his great services to the state. A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in the Great Conflict She had become therefore somewhat querulous, and self-opinionated in her discussions with her friend. La Mere Bauche And there is Ruiz, he's a cattle dealer; he'd be a good friend of Banks if Banks wasn't so infernally self-opinionated. The Crusade of the Excelsior We'd rather die than give up our little self-righteous self-opinionated self-will.' Women in Love When I took over the "People's Messenger" my idea was to break up this ring of self-opinionated old fossils who had got hold of all the influence. An Enemy of the People We all disliked him; we thought him conceited, self-opinionated, selfish, and untrustworthy. The Heritage of Dedlow Marsh and Other Tales He was warm-hearted, sharp-witted, and, though perhaps a little self-opinionated, considered throughout the county to be one of the most prudent in it. The Prime Minister Alas!" exclaimed Shan Tien bitterly, "among the innumerable drawbacks of an exacting position the enforced reliance upon an unusually inept and more than ordinarily self-opinionated inscriber of the spoken word is perhaps the most illimitable. Kai Lung's Golden Hours And not being satisfied with Fang's ill-advised attempt to express himself equivocally, those around took up the apt similitude of a self-opinionated animal, and began to suggest a comparison to other creatures no less degraded. The Mirror of Kong Ho Indeed, there are numerous annoyances, but they become as Heaven-sent blessings in comparison to a self-opinionated and more than ordinarily weak-minded son-in-law. The Wallet of Kai Lung When King-y-Yang learned how the venture had been carried out, he became most intolerably self-opinionated in his expressions towards Sen's mental attainments and the manner of his bringing up. The Wallet of Kai Lung "They of Wu-whei!" exclaimed a self-opinionated bystander, who had by some means obtained an inferior public office, and who was, in consequence, enabled to be present on all occasions without contributing any offering. The Wallet of Kai Lung |
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