But if The Casual Vacancy is ambitious in its scope and themes, it is determinedly unadventurous in its style and mode.
The plane is moving toward the second tower counterintuitively; rather than avoiding the tower, it is determinedly bearing down, picking up speed.
It is determinedly over the top, a pleasure palace where marble steps doused in gobs of brown paint appear to be overflowing with melted chocolate.
It's his design language – capturing the essence of the classic models in a way that's determinedly modern – that is stamped on the company's products.
But as she was one of the few women writing about pop at that time, and for many years to follow, it's also determinedly different.
It's a determinedly user-friendly restaurant, stocking raw-bar and charcuterie selections for people who want to do that kind of grazing while they sample wines from a list with many affordable options and no particular allegiance to California.
Who was it who said like an angel gargling in a crystal vase?" Carey's novel is determinedly unpolitical — to a political degree.
But Regent's College is determinedly nonprofit.
