self-unyielding

Updated: May 16, 2025

But through his plaintive and homage-rendering love of a young husband was always, for the woman, discernible the arrogance of self-unyielding male. He never yielded himself: never. All his mad loving was only an effort. Afterwards, he was as devilishly unyielded as ever.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence - Aaron's Rod