When it comes to short- and long-term emotional scarring, your mileage may vary, and kids might not be as resilient as they seem.
His strategy for taking on the owners was a thing of beauty, a resilient, multipronged attack that would have made Sun Tzu proud.
Still, Coach Bill had his reservations about turning the cameras on his team of resilient young men.
The effort to reinstate more functional and resilient fire regimens has stalled.
Instead of being strong and resilient, bones become weak and brittle.
He sat up and yawned, stretched, the healthy stretch of resilient youth.
Octavia's resilient flesh crawled and quivered at her memories.
Sheba did not know, as her resilient muscles carried her forward joyfully, that she was answering the call of youth to youth.
They are a dangerous, tenacious, resilient, ruthless and unrelenting foe to have.
She went by with her quick and resilient tread, her cheek royally red.
1640s, "springing back," from Latin resilientem "inclined to leap or spring back," present participle of resilire (see resilience). Figuratively, of persons, from 1830. Related: Resiliently.
