Sentence examples for rather doggedly from inspiring English sources

They play silently and rather doggedly, usually doubles, and seldom bother to call the points.

It's a very earnest piece of work: handsome, methodical, rather doggedly literal Katsumoto's mountain village was built, thatched roof by thatched roof, in the wilds of New Zealand.

This is also a thing of beauty: it hints rather than doggedly, sea-doggedly, copies.

It is instead doggedly chronological.

I am very much a leisure cyclist, inclined to stop off and mooch around rather than doggedly press on, unlike those suicidal Tour de France guys, who had embarked that very morning from a nearby town in Brittany.

Others felt a more student-centred approach rather than doggedly tackling each learning objective ('shoving it through') might have been preferable or less 'dry'dry

The finale was perfectly judged, its remorseless journey towards its final resolution as musically logical as it was emotionally convincing, so that the final chords were doggedly resilient rather than emptily triumphant.

The critics may have tired of the on-screen persona characterised by one of their number as Manic Pixie Dream Girl ("adorkable or tweepulsive?" pondered Vanity Fair of her latest vehicle, the sitcom New Girl; the Onion simply retitled the show Zooey Deschanel's Nerd Glasses and Quirky Sense of Humour Render Her Undateable), but on she doggedly ploughs, or rather skips.

Instead, she stuck doggedly to her target.

Significantly, in response to the fall of Constantinople and the Muslim threat, Nicholas of Cusa advocated "conversation" rather than "crusade," a strategy pursued doggedly though unsuccessfully by his friend, Pope Pius II.

The result of all this — and I doggedly blame the "all this," rather than myself — is that although I now cook with enthusiasm and pleasure, I do so with no sense of freedom or imagination.