The extracts thus far published from his forthcoming diaries may suggest someone "unhappily famous" rather than "determinedly doomed" (there's certainly a lot of whining about the music press) but in death, rock stars tend to become rather unambiguous figures, easily summed up in a soundbite: tormented genius, doomed romantic, hip-hop thug.
Her Marquise is successful, on its own; but she seems to be observing the proceedings, rather than determinedly pulling the strings.
Rather, he is determinedly ignoring the one aspect of the interview that, clearly, is far beyond his capacity to ignore.
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".
Indeed, at the enormous Michigan Athletic Club, stair-steppers wearing headphones stare determinedly down rather than watch the bank of television sets.
The Thin White Duke was Bowie's final persona, a character who embodied the allure of evil, immaculately dressed in waistcoat and Oxford bags, crooning rather than rocking out, determinedly European.
A visually minimalist, determinedly modern and rather charming dictionary app called Miss D, which co-founder Tony Tao says is aimed at making people curious about learning other languages.
The plane is moving toward the second tower counterintuitively; rather than avoiding the tower, it is determinedly bearing down, picking up speed.
Out of the various identities on offer to her - Asian, British, Sikh, wife of an American, girl from Southall, international film director - she has put together one that works, avoiding easy categorisation, determinedly seeing culture as opportunity rather than constraint.
The song was something of an outlier in Spectrum's catalogue, a vaguely folky jam that set itself apart from their more determinedly prog numbers, and would later give them the rather unkind label of one-hit wonders.
