It was the definitive lose-lose situation!
"Adelaide's Lament," Vivian Blaine's showstopper in "Guys and Dolls," is definitive of her situation -- a "female remaining single, / Just in the legal sense," who tends to "develop a cold" when brushed off yet again by her dilatory boyfriend.
It is too early to make definitive statements about the situation on the ground there at this time," said spokeswoman Maureen Schumann, quoted by AFP.
However, it's not a definitive no, because every situation is different.
The continent itself needs to be strong in its condemnation and we need to push them and urge them and convince them that this is the right thing to do, because our people are looking to us to take definitive action in a situation which is quite appalling.
Through the image of the Afronaut, artists are making definitive statements about current situations of liberation, freedom, and oppression, while simultaneously referencing the past and staking a place for black life in the future.
In situations lacking definitive scientific evidence of causality but with the suspicion of a link with an increased risk of cancer, some generic principles may assist policy makers facing public health and environment decisions.
Not definitive, just definite.
Indeed, the invitations and propositions of some recent art give insight into definitive elements of the present situation, concurrently challenging popular sentiment and established taste.
