Sentence examples for determinedly positive from inspiring English sources

Yet the shelter itself is a determinedly positive place.

But Pidgeon, who has also been a Southwark borough councillor, is determinedly positive.

After a muted start, the atmosphere of the gathering, called a jirga, was determinedly positive by the end.

Those receptions stopped when even the most determinedly positive NS executive, despite assiduous sifting, could not find a single grain of gold in the figures.

They do come back for the checkups and the rehabilitation, which includes physiotherapy and psychological and social support, but they are determinedly positive.

As the "enlightened" bit of the title of the exhibition suggests, Ms. Barrie and Dr. Evans have kept the focus determinedly positive.

Though she remained determinedly on-message and positive, talking about the people who are "really, really hurting," her face and demeanor belied a weariness.

During the long, silent years, when he sat with Lis on his lonely Majorcan clifftop fighting off depression, his children say that he gradually let go of bitterness, and these days determinedly focusses on remembering only the positive side of things.

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".

One of the most determinedly virtuous songwriters in R&B or pop, India.Arie strives to make faith, goodness and positive thinking seductive, and on this album, working as her own co-producer (with Dru Castro), she's endearing even when she's preachy.

The series has a specific African American viewpoint and features characters who could not be called the most positive role models: Lucious and Cookie sold drugs, Cookie is brazen and determinedly non-PC, Lucious murders a blackmailing colleague — one of Cookie's relatives — in the first episode.