The phrase "a mixture of determination" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a combination of different qualities or emotions, particularly when emphasizing the presence of determination among them.
Example: "Her success was a result of a mixture of determination and hard work, which propelled her to achieve her goals."
Alternatives: "a blend of determination" or "a combination of resolve".
Any tight spots need to be met with a mixture of determination and guile.
The story behind the story was a classic example of investigative journalism - a mixture of determination, chutzpah, good luck and comedy.
With a mixture of determination and mind-blurring masochism, he endured an XFL season, an Arena Football League season and, finally, a full National Football League training camp and regular season, a staggering continuum.
She and other experts responsible for identifying strains to target as part of the effort to lessen deaths, hospitalisations and general misery caused by the flu approach the assignment with a mixture of determination and exasperation: determination to make the best call possible; exasperation at the limitations of trying to outwit an ever-changing virus.
It's a mixture of determination and desperation, a raw visual expression of how brazenly the former Disney Channel star has remade herself in a hip-hop image but also, it seems, of a creeping fear that her license to appropriate may be revoked at any moment.
Clare Hollingworth was 27 when she became a journalist – like much else in her life, thanks to a mixture of ferocious determination and barely credible luck.
On that day in 1994, the surviving jazz exiles recalled the dark absurdities of a musician's life under apartheid, with a mixture of realism, determination, anger and humour that reflected Mandela's own spirit.
The unofficial word is that the governor listens to his wife, but does not necessarily obey her (she did not want her husband to run in 2003 either).Mr Schwarzenegger is an odd mixture of determination and superficiality.
And he kept it captivated with a series of press conferences that projected a mixture of defiance and determination.
His chance of redemption came after the Lions had conceded a penalty at their own scrum, an indignity that summed up a performance that was a mixture of inspiration, aggression, determination, carelessness and stupidity.
Nothing summed this up better than a sublime assist against Saint-Étienne, where he beat four players with a mixture of poise, skill, determination and sheer quality, before laying the ball back for Obraniak to score.
