Translation for "acometividad" to english

Acometividad

noun

• aggressiveness

Translation examples

aggressiveness noun

Aunque estudiase la Sagrada Escritura con mayor acometividad que los hasidim, el método del Gaón era místico a su manera.
Even though he studied scripture more aggressively than the Hasidim, the Gaon’s method was in its own way mystical.

El rostro revelaba una acometividad gimiente e impotente, lloraba por la desesperación de no poder sumergirse en el fuego de la batalla.
The face revealed a moaning and impotent aggressiveness, he was weeping from the desperation of not being able to throw himself into the fire of battle.

Con Haran sucedía todo lo contrario, pues su vanidad y su acometividad oscurecían todo lo demás y se manifestaban en cada una de sus frases.
With Haran it was quite the reverse, for his Brahmoism, with its aggressive self-conceit, obscured everything else, and came out, in all its ungainliness, in whatever he said or did.

La calma que demostraba Paresh Babu le llenó de admiración. Su benévola serenidad le situaba muy por encima de ambos contendientes. Su actitud era infinitamente más digna que la acometividad de Gora: «Las opiniones no son nada —pensó—.
He was filled with admiration for Paresh Babu's calm self-control,—his benign serenity, raised into the heights of aloofness above, both sides of the argument,—when he contrasted it with Gora's aggressive demeanour. Opinions are nothing, thought he to himself,—better than all is the self-contained calm of true realisation.

En cierto modo, Jaime parecía cambiado desde su regreso del campamento de los delawares. Aunque se dedicaba a su trabajo con su antigua acometividad, no le acompañaba ya el éxito de antes. Fuera esto falta suya o no, tomaba muy a pecho su fracaso. Y fue Nelly quien le ayudó a sobrellevar la pena que le causaba la decepción.
In some way Jim seemed changed since he had returned from the Delaware encampment. Although he went back to the work with his old aggressiveness, he was not nearly so successful as he had been before. Whether or not this was his fault, he took his failure deeply to heart. There was that in his tenderness which caused Nell to regard him, in one sense, as she did her uncle.