Sentence examples for amiable but determined from inspiring English sources
She had little or no sympathy for anything written later than 1300 and if driven to teach subsidiary students elementary French, or approaches to Gide or Sartre, she would do so with amiable but determined perplexity.
But determined, absolutely.
Be patient but determined.
In Jakov Lind's "Journey Through the Night", a man meets an amiable and determined slaughterer with his little case of dissecting instruments (the detail again), who tries to persuade the narrator that his life is so insignificant that he may as well give pleasure to a flesh-eater.
Though courtEeous and amiable, he was determined to impress upon us that he was a son of toil (that was the great romance, apart from his marriage, in his life); and he seemed trying to make us uncomfortable by references to the contrast between his childhood and ours.
There is an amiable balance of the determined and the improvisatory, and the possibility that nature itself will change it over the coming months.
Waiters are amiable, but it's hard to flag one down when you want the check.
Service is amiable but haphazard.
Servers are hardworking and amiable, but service is sometimes ragged.
Jonathan Stafford is a polite and amiable but pallid Prince Ivan.
