Sentence examples for definitive reckoning from inspiring English sources
Most were further surprised, though presumably not dismayed, by the serious commitment to Arab-Israeli peace shown by President George Bush soon after the invasion.More of those surprises have been pleasant than unpleasant, though it is too soon to make a definitive reckoning of that sort.
Not definitive, just definite.
Margaret Rutherford was 70 when she defined the role on screen in the 1960s; Joan Hickson, generally reckoned to be the definitive Miss Marple, was in her mid-80s when she made the last of her TV adaptations.
Guardian science correspondent (and author of the definitive story of the hunt for the Higgs boson) Ian Sample reckons it's too early to give the award to particle physicists for their sort-of discovery, earlier this year, of the long-elusive particle that gives all other particles their mass.
While a success rate of 0.8 foxes per hunt might sound like definitive proof that hunting is a spectacularly inefficient way to kill bushy-tailed canines, the Countryside Alliance reckons that this is a normal rate of return for the end of the season.
But whoever takes on Amanda must reckon with the phantom presence of Laurette Taylor, who created the role in 1945 in a performance recalled as -- oh, you name it -- transcendent, definitive, unmatchable.
The reckoning always comes.
Charles V. Bremer was very definitive.
