In the other stories in this volume, Mr. Updike's efforts to revisit earlier characters and situations are decidedly less successful.
When Mr. Mitchell stays away from the philosophical mumbo jumbo and sticks more closely to the here and now, he is decidedly more successful.
Unless you count the blaxploitation films starring Pam Grier in the 1970's, which were successful but decidedly low-budget, that has not yet happened in Hollywood.
As a man (purportedly successful, but decidedly single) actually hoping to meet a powerful, successful woman interested in me, I only hope that those women looking for love do not forgo their dreams, interests and desires in the hopes of finding their "man".
McCain's first run made him into a prominent national figure, which in turn allowed for a decidedly different, but ultimately successful, second attempt at the nomination.
Other successful practices have remained decidedly small.
Helen Ukpabio, who is a leading actress as well as a successful preacher, runs a decidedly religious production company called Liberty Films.
Likewise, community health programmes, community legal aid programmes, social services and justice reinvestment programmes have been either deliberately cut, like the highly successful Youth Connections, or decidedly ignored.
Indeed, Elsevier has been trying to keep up, but with an approach that has been decidedly more proprietary, and arguably less successful.
What's more unusual is the successful Internet business in the decidedly low-tech world of trousers and polo shirts.
