jaw-jutting

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1. Having one’s lower jaw protruding forward
2. figurativelydetermined, dogged, strong-willed, defiant

   Up on the Gianicolo the Jewish stallholders sold metal replicas of St. Peter’s and Romulus and Remus and jawjutting pictures of the Duce.

   1980, Anthony Burgess, chapter 43, in Earthly Powers, London: Hutchinson

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   1954, Lars Lawrence (pseudonym of Philip Stevenson), Morning, Noon, and Night, New York: Putnam, Part III, Chapter 9, p. 147, What he called her “genius” for diplomacy, her tolerance of the precious sensitivities of intellectuals, was as useless in his rough-and-tumble relations with goons and jailers as his jaw-jutting aggressions would be in her mannered and scrupulous artistic circle.

   The actors give it their all, especially Knightley, whose jaw-jutting, heavily accented and unfairly criticized portrayal gives the film its fighting spirit.

   2011 November 21, Peter Travers, “A Dangerous Method”, in Rolling Stone

   Harold was different: stylishly clad in black and often in sunglasses, he was a man’s man, a proper bloke, a whiskey-drinking, women-loving, sweary, jaw-jutting fella, brought up on the hard, war-bittne streets of Hackney […]

   2016 February, Gary Kemp, “Drama’s pause célèbre”, in GQ