untractable

He again abandoned the reins of his war horse, and wrung bitterly the hands, which his mail gloves rendered untractable.

Quentin Durward 2008

He begins to be timid, suspicious, and untractable, and I fear Jenny will soon bend her brows on him in vain.

Redgauntlet 2008

“To which of those happy propositions is your Duke so much wedded that contradiction will make him unreasonable and untractable?”

Quentin Durward 2008

The Captain began to find he had a very untractable pupil to manage, when, while they were arguing together,

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

It was the proudest and most untractable of the Jacobins who acclaimed ‎ Bonaparte with greatest energy when he suppressed all liberty and made his hand of iron ‎ severely felt.

Democracy R.I.P 2007

How come else the untractable zealots in different and opposite parties?

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

Moreover, the problem of building satisfactory relativistic generalizations of these models has encountered serious mathematical difficulties due to the appearance of untractable divergences.

Collapse Theories Ghirardi, Giancarlo 2007

Besides, with all his respectful assiduities, it was easy to observe, (if it had not been his general character) that his temper is naturally haughty and violent; and I had seen too much of that untractable spirit in my brother to like it in one who hoped to be still more nearly related to me.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

Sometimes, I've been able to appeal to untractable students in my paper comments by asking them to engage the rhetorical and analytical tools of their other courses or chosen discipline.

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2006

How come else the untractable zealots in different and opposite parties?

God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005