While traditionally female skincare products, such as cleansers, exfoliators and moisturisers, represent the fastest growing area of men's grooming, the sales remain determinedly modest at just 6% of all transactions.
After being repeatedly rescued, "it again rushed in, and at last determinedly held its head under water until life was extinct". A growing number of reports then circulated during the 1870s and 1880s: a duck that drowned itself; a cat that hanged itself from a branch following the death of her kittens.
As mystery writing has grown more determinedly realistic, reflecting social ills that lend their stories a dimension of tragedy, the old-fashioned repeating, unchanging detective has grown obsolete.
Marianne, played by a formidable actress, might be a clue, though we are left wanting more of her; beyond that, it may take a woman to inquire so determinedly into the weakness of grown men, and into the impossibly potent feelings of those who are still growing.
Slowly and determinedly, Ms. Hatfield was moving in a positive direction; her lyrics on 2004's "In Exile Deo" (Zoe/Rounder) reflected growing self-awareness and optimism: "I've been sleeping through my life/Now I'm waking up/And I want to stand in the sunshine".
Growing up in Inglewood, Calif., amid gangs and drugs, Scott often made choices at the sound of a gun and determinedly lived the lessons of his parents.
Beyond the growing Latino population, Mr. Obama's margin in New Mexico was helped by the state's large American Indian presence, which is 10 percent of New Mexico's population and which was determinedly courted by the Obama campaign in 2008.
Al Gore himself once wrote, "I grew up in a determinedly political family, in which I learned at an early age to be very sensitive — too sensitive, perhaps — to what others were thinking, and to notice carefully — maybe too carefully — the similarities and differences between my way of thinking and that of the society around me".
Certainly in his early works the "young eagle" could seem a rather wooden bird, determinedly plotting a formal course rather than flying freely.Although Brahms's composition grew ever more relaxed and supple, some listeners still discern an occasional disjunction in his pieces between real inspiration and the bald application of method with its "stink of the workshop".
One woman sat on her bench determinedly mashing a freshly biopsied fragment of a human brain into individual cells so that she could grow them in a tissue-culture flask.
Portraying a woman who grew up in a shack in Illinois with gross redneck caricatures for parents, Ms. Driver strives determinedly to carry off a role that at odd moments suggests a worst-nightmare parody of Kathie Lee Gifford.
