What is "strong-willed"

Usage examples of "strong-willed".

But it was Adams who took the lead in advocating titles, voicing his views in direct opposition to a strong-willed senator from Pennsylvania, William Maclay.

Moffett often writes about strong-willed characters -- take a look at how much Denny Demaree risks in this story for the sake of his research.

It should be feisty, hardheaded, strong-willed, fast-moving Faye he worried about.

Back at Hesed, her twin sons were probably fast asleep or enjoying a midnight feeding, Kiel a tiny mirror image of his father, and strong-willed Kinnor with those tight auburn curls, that impish face.

Against the advice of his Cabinetall but the strong-willed Montgomery Blair, a West PointerLincoln had decided to wage war rather than permit the Southern malcontents to break up the government.

Then she knew the fiall story of what had happened to him during the voyage, how he had been emotionally abused in a contest of two very strong-willed men who had thought more of denying the other of his company than how their passion battle was wracking him who admired them both.

He knew, too, that a dogsled driver had to come across as the leader of the pack if the strong-willed dogs were to respond to his commands.

He was a printer, from Bloomington, Illinois, tall, dark, intelligent and strong-willed, and one of the bravest men I ever knew.

The younger man, as ever impatient and strong-willed, had ventured into the courtyard with his electric torch.

Herman, a French pastry and whipped cream man by nature, had gone along with her notions, in part because he was fond of Elaine, and in part because she was twice as strong-willed as he was.

One of them is explored in more detail, his weakness of character, his artistic interests, his dependence on a strong-willed wife delicately and sensitively presented, but not to such an extent that the conventional form of the mystery novel is endangered.