All 11 Uses
resolute
in
The Goldfinch
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- Resolutely I stared at the television.†
p. 89.2 *resolutely = with firm purpose or belief
- Resolutely she dashed a tear from her eye while I flailed about for something to say.†
p. 445.1
- Shaking his head with resolute firmness.†
p. 523.1
- "No," said Boris resolutely.†
p. 577.3resolutely = with firm purpose or belief
- "Is that so," I said, with resolute blandness; in the antiques trade, I had daily occasion to deal with insinuating old gents of his stripe and Mrs. Barbour, who had not let go my hand, only squeezed it tighter.†
p. 622.7
- "Well," she said resolutely.†
p. 625.2resolutely = with firm purpose or belief
- For a moment I stood in perfect stillness—ticking clock, submerged memories from childhood, doors opening to bright old daydreams where we walked together on summer lawns—before, resolutely, going back to my room for the necklace which had called to me in an auction house showroom with her name: lifting it from its midnight velvet box and, carefully, draping it over one of the boots so a splash of gold caught the light.†
p. 646.1
- Instead he looked resolute, attentive, a model of certainty and promise.†
p. 699.8
- that the world and everything in it was intolerably and permanently fucked and nothing had ever been good or okay, unbearable claustrophobia of the soul, the windowless room, no way out, waves of shame and horror, leave me alone, my mother dead on a marble floor, stop it stop it, muttering aloud to myself in elevators, in cabs, leave me alone, I want to die, a cold, intelligent, self-immolating fury that had —more than once driven me upstairs in a resolute fog to swallow indiscriminate combos of whatever booze and pills I happened to have on hand: only tolerance and ineptitude that I'd botched it, unpleasantly surprised when I woke up though relieved for Hobie that he hadn't had to find me.†
p. 715.9
- I drank the rest of my gin and uncorked it, feeling resolute and jubilant—I was hungry, they'd restocked the crackers and cocktail snacks but this was all going to work a lot better on an empty stomach.†
p. 716.6
- "Hi," I said, dropping my suitcase—occupied with Popchik who was pacing round my feet in staunch geriatric figure eights of greeting —and only when I glanced up at him climbing down from the ladder did I notice how resolute he looked: troubled, but with a firm, defensive smile fixed on his face.†
p. 748.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(resolute) firm in purpose, belief, or action
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)