As a true believer in Roger Fry's progressive manifesto, Piper looked to Europe for inspiration, imbibing and producing an art that determinedly floated above national boundaries.
Readers who clicked on the home page of the newspaper's Web site — perhaps to check Republican primary news — were treated to a giant mug of President Obama, looking determinedly off into the distance, above this caption: "Only Barack Obama is Fighting for the Middle Class".
Formal innovation raises its head above the placid waters of literary fiction and pushes determinedly on into the mainstream.
There are several Jewish people on its board of trustees, including the chairman, Jonathan Levy; it has hosted the UK Jewish Film Festival for the past eight years; above all, it has long nurtured work that is determinedly anti-sectarian, anti-racist, pro-human.
Belfort is determinedly sexist.
But Spain remained determinedly neutral.
She was determinedly litigious.
"Yes," said Michael determinedly.
She hangs on, determinedly.
