As the dance landscape has lost some of its more individualistic voices (Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham), and one small troupe can look much like any other small troupe, Burgess has kept steadfastly to his quiet, unique aesthetic.
He kept his hands steadfastly at his sides.
Many banks, particularly European ones, have steadfastly kept up their dividend payments throughout the crisis, despite pleas from regulators to cut dividends and concentrate on rebuilding capital levels.
A generation ago, it was the Black Sparrow Press which steadfastly kept his titles in print; in the middle of the last decade, Carroll & Graf put out new editions of several of his books.
Notre Dame has steadfastly kept itself above such tawdry muck, but each slip-up chips away at its carefully crafted image as a place where high-level football and the moral high ground aren't mutually exclusive.
At the Emirates in Chelsea's 1-0 defeat he was the subject of considerable abuse from the stands and steadfastly kept his head down, appearing determined not to respond to the provocation.
I read Mary Mapes Dodge's "Hans Brinker," or "The Silver Skates" (1865), which popularized the tale of the civic-minded Dutch boy who steadfastly kept his finger in the dike, and which, unforgettably, offered a footnote acknowledging the historian Thomas Macaulay.
In an election year of close attention to issues of economic fairness and income disparity, Baldwin's sexual orientation was peripheral, and she steadfastly kept it that way, not inviting gay and lesbian advocacy groups to speak up loudly for her or link themselves too visibly to her bid.
Suppose this government also steadfastly keeps out of the business of worrying about how happy its citizens are.
Suppose the government in some country steadfastly keeps out of the business of tracking the levels of virtue in its citizens.
