She had an instinct for boulevard comedy, and her milieu — Ivy League-educated, Jewish baby boomers with ennui — was always decidedly unhip.
The masculine emphasis in sports was complemented by the club life of the upper classes, which, while always decidedly masculine, in the 1880s and '90s, in terms of the development of London clubland, served even more to emphasize expressions of masculine identity in leisure activities.
They've always been decidedly un-fashion.
On the political spectrum of American economists, Feldstein's always been decidedly on the right.
They decided that they preferred to remain the 27 biggest fish in the European pond, though some will always be decidedly bigger than others, and not to import a pair of unbiddable sharks who might start to gobble them all up.
The natural world is a fuzzy place that doesn't always accommodate our decidedly human need to find cut-and-dried categories.
With results that have been and always will be decidedly mixed, humans have insisted on putting themselves where they have not been before.
"For a decent number of weeks we'd test the waters in dress rehearsal with your basic, straightforward 'Bush isn't that smart' joke," recalls the former "Saturday Night Live" writer Mike Schur, "and it would always get a decidedly negative response, so we had to toss it out".
It is a predicament layered in paradoxes, not the least of which is that the humble cottage, which Mr. Rowland and his wife bought for $110,000 with a $5,000 down payment, always had a decidedly down-market air about it, as far as getaways for Connecticut politicians go.
He first picked up a violin at age 4, played an impromptu duet at age 11 with none other than Albert Einstein (whom, Rines always maintained, he decidedly outplayed) and in high school formed his own band, the Six Aces of Rhythm, for which he wrote musical arrangements.
It has always seemed like a decidedly uncomfortable arrangement.
