That has created a backlash against Barcelona's style and their steadfast, almost evangelical commitment to it, which came together in the Spain-are-boring debate of Euro 2012, one that appeared in Spain, not just abroad.
There is an argument that her steadfast, almost emotional loyalty to the pound sterling has helped the UK weather the storms of European monetary uncertainty.
After the vehemently despairing final phrases of the last song, "Die alten, bösen Lieder" ("The Bad Old Songs"), as Mr. Muzijevic played the solo piano epilogue, Mr. Keenlyside stood almost motionless, like a steadfast soldier of love who has suffered a stinging defeat but will not let on.
In the words of Dave Eggers, "the architecture of residential San Francisco is about detail, wilful eccentricity, an almost rococo approach to line, and a steadfast devotion to art for its own sake, beauty as its own reward.
Film noir is often said to be defined by "moral ambiguity", yet the Production Code obliged almost all classic noirs to see that steadfast virtue was ultimately rewarded and vice, in the absence of shame and redemption, severely punished (however dramatically incredible the final rendering of mandatory justice might be).
Nellie Gray, a steadfast opponent of abortion who for almost 40 years led a yearly protest march in Washington that drew tens of thousands of supporters, and whose battle cry was "No exception!
Because of the excitement of battle scenes, war movies almost can't help romanticizing combat, but "The Steadfast," which doesn't waste time trying to simulate fighting, does not glorify it.
One of the many interesting things in Pew's recent report on political typologies, which tries to go beyond dividing the electorate up into left and right, is that "business conservatives" and "steadfast conservatives", who between them make up almost 40% of the politically engaged electorate, do not agree on very much.
Hermione Granger, the brainy friend, and Ron Weasley, the steadfast friend, are at his side for almost every challenge he faces.
Her father was steadfast in his view about colonialism.
