All 13 Uses of
resolute
in
The Lords of Discipline
- If it was handsome, it was all a cold, sedate handsomeness that gave off a somewhat disturbing aura of wisdom and pain, of having lived deeply, suffered, rallied, despaired, laughed at her despair until the face that survived all these countless darkening moods and transfigurements was lined with discernment, with a resolute sense of commitment to form, and the power to be amused slightly by the whole long journey.†
Chpt 1.2
- He gave me a look that linked us as spiritual allies, resolute desperadoes in headlong flight from the false and sinister veneer of Charleston.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- The freshmen now listened to me with resolute grimness.†
Chpt 1.9
- When I finally could look up and my eyes could focus, Pig had entered that first sinister position of karate, and Mark stood facing him, resolute and dangerous, in a boxer's stance of at least equal formidability.†
Chpt 1.10
- "Yeh," Mark answered resolutely, "I want you to kiss everybody's ass.†
Chpt 1.10
- Like most sons of domineering men, I had a compulsive need to test the quality of my manhood by marching resolutely into the territory he had carefully marked out as his own.†
Chpt 2.17
- I had no doubts then, and none now, that I spent four years in the loveliest city on the continent and that some indelible mark of civilization, some passionate intimacy with form and beauty, would remain with me always if only I were vigilant enough, if only I were resolute in my intention to assimilate the resonances and intimations of that exquisite city.†
Chpt 2.18
- He paused and with a voice almost undone by emotion and conviction said in a clear ringing pronouncement, "Gentlemen, at this moment, and according to the powers invested in me by the Board of Visitors, I command you now to wear the ring, the ring that you and you alone so gallantly and resolutely have earned."†
Chpt 3.26
- In a real sense, you could never know a freshman at the Institute, no matter how resolutely you tried to remove the social barriers that separated you.†
Chpt 3.30
- The letter proves nothing, Mr. McLean, because nothing is stated directly or resolutely.†
Chpt 4.34
- Looking at them, not at me, he said resolutely, "Yes, sir, I swear it."†
Chpt 4.39
- He was a man of resolute will, and Jim Rowland knew he had made a critical error by the vehemence with which Gauldin ruled and then gavelled the other members of the court into silence.†
Chpt 4.41
- I saw my roommate marching resolutely toward the train, dazed, in the same resigned, unequivocal walk that had carried him through the regiment.†
Chpt 4.41
Definition:
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(resolute) firm in purpose or belief