Sentence examples for determination of someone from inspiring English sources

The only thing that could bring Millet to orgasm, she tells us, was the image of Henric's back as he thrust into another woman "with the determination of someone struggling with a stubborn drawer in a dresser".

"Several" passages from Jonathan Safran Foer's Here I Am also caught the judges' attention, the magazine added, with lines such as: "He jerked off with the determination of someone within sight of Everest's summit, having lost all his friends and Sherpas, having run out of supplemental oxygen, but preferring death to failure".

And while there may be a perceived correlation between artistic integrity and liberal politics, out in the real world ideology and orientation is of far less importance than direction of travel, and the determination of someone to get to where they're headed.

Abner's life at his age revolves around the struggle between decrepitude and the determination of someone who feels free to shoot off his mouth because he has nothing left to lose; his quarrel with the world may in fact be his best survival strategy.

There's nothing quite as sexy as a look of passionate determination on someone's face.

"Frederick should never have committed the psychological blunder of preaching the doctrine of relentless determination to someone incapable of receiving it".

Representatives for Accumetrics, which sells a blood test, and Corgenix, which sells a urine test, maintained that there was value in determining how well aspirin worked in individual patients, and said more recent research on the issue has moved away from a stark determination of whether someone is resistant to aspirin.

The world cries out for confidence and determination, for someone with a plan.

"The determination of whether or not someone is a gang member is so subjective and the threshold for criteria is so low as to be virtually useless," he told VICE.

When you think of someone who is COMMITTED, you think of courage, determination, someone with a strong character and a stick-with-it-ness no matter what.

Like all states, California follows a version of the 1981 Uniform Determination of Death Act, which says that someone who has sustained the "irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain stem, is dead".