Both Uses of
resolute
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Mr. Brinker-Smith found the twins' methods of thwarting his various inventions "fascinating"; he was a true scientist—the failures of his experiments were almost as interesting to him as his successes, and his determination to press forward, with more and more twin-inspired inventions, was resolute.†
p. 157.5
- But after Lydia died, Germaine refused to read aloud to my grandmother; Germaine was convinced that her reading aloud to Lydia had either killed Lydia or hastened her death, and Germaine was resolute in not wanting to murder Grandmother in a similar fashion.†
p. 262.3 *
Definition:
firm in purpose, belief, or action