My father slammed me across the face with his great palm, and in that moment everything flooded back — all the hatred and all the fear, and the depth of a merciless resolve to kill my father rather than allow my father to kill me — and I knew that all those sermons and tears and all that repentance and rejoicing had changed nothing.
The prosecutors added that, based on testimony by witnesses, "it can be deduced that the commission of the crime was planned deliberately by the perpetrators and that, until its consummation, there was an inexorable resolve to kill".
Dar'st thou resolve to kill a friend of mine?
Word of Sharp's alleged claims soon reached Jereboam Beauchamp, reviving his resolve to kill him.
All seems lost as the Amahagger resolve to kill Ustane along with the white men but Billali returns in the nick of time and declares that the three men are under the protection of She.
Well, can't you see the resolve to kill you in my sword?".
A more conventional account of the intersection of a single life and time than Andress's book, "Fatal Purity" is in its way just as rewarding, because of what Robespierre represents: the ascent of the mass-murdering nerd — a man who, having read a book, resolves to kill all the people who don't like it as much as he does.
(In Unamuno's classic novel "Mist," from 1914, a suicidal man resolves to kill Unamuno rather than himself when he learns he's only a character in a book).
He later studied literature and philosophy at a university in Buenos Aires and at 20, despondent over a failed love affair, resolved to kill himself by letting a jaguar attack him.
On page 44 there's a scene in which Simonides, who was famously ugly, recalls how, as a youth, he had resolved to kill himself: having climbed to the parapet of a temple, he looks up at the bright sky and realizes he's being foolish.
The group had resolved to kill Roark a week or two earlier, Aguigui later testified.
