The goal is to accept, with calm resolve, the fact that we are mortal, and irreparably flawed.
Viviane Hagner was the soloist in the fiendish and beautiful Violin Concerto written for her by Unsuk Chin, and she spun out its glassy, implacable lines with the kind of calm resolve and steely grace that only she could.
Margaret and I stood there, poleaxed with amazement that an elderly woman who'd suffered such a loss could speak about it to two strangers with such calm resolve.
While Mr. Alger turned teary-eyed when describing how he watched on television as the World Trade Center burned and collapsed, he showed calm resolve, even hubris, in describing how he and his firm will go on after losing so many of the firm's best and brightest employees.
Earlier in the night the panel, which included the former Labor leader Mark Latham and the independent senator Jacqui Lambie, had been vastly improved by the presence of Labor's deputy leader, Tanya Plibersek, who continually corrected Jones's pronouncements with calm resolve while looking as though she would rather be anywhere else.
For ancient Egyptians death was not feared but met with with calm, resolve and promise.
That she has already mastered the technical aspects of Beethoven's concerto, and can play it with accuracy and calm resolve, is an exceptional and inspiring achievement.
The situation became tense once the rebels realised what had happened, but the king acted with calm resolve and, saying "I am your captain, follow me!", he led the mob away from the scene.
And this was only in the short article about the transformation that occurred when she took on her husband's depression with her own fury and calm resolve to never give up on him.
The White House announced that President Bush had asked Attorney General John Ashcroft to "help calm and resolve the situation" by dispatching two Justice Department mediators to investigate the trouble.
