This is both to nazism - the unchanging evil we need to always see ourselves as good - and to a resolutely air-brushed version of colonial history in which gunboat diplomacy was moral uplift, civilising missions were completed, the trains ran on time and the natives appreciated the value of stability.
The waffling of Senator McCain's on Iraq -- for the war, against the prosecution of the war, for the new expansion of hostilities -- reads as a classic example of another inside-the-Beltway jockey with his finger in the air, resolutely testing the breezes of political expediency.
Both are resolutely ad hoc.
So do the red-uniformed women riders, who grin resolutely through quadrilles, caprioles, and airs above the ground, broadcasting their teeth.
I resolve to resolutely restyle my resolutions.
Resolutely and with surprising agility, the writer with the adolescent air sprang to his feet and rushed out into the street.
But they keep themselves resolutely out of the picture and, instead, maintain a quietly knowing air of superiority to benighted subjects who haven't seen the political light.
Army bases were considered impregnable, air defences the most formidable in the region, and soldiers resolutely loyal.
But where "Something in the Air" is a wider look at post-1968 Coldterculture, "Cold Water" is resolutely close-up.
Last week's document, which Mr Abe calls an "historic" step, promises that Japan will respond "calmly and resolutely to the rapid expansion and step-up of China's maritime and air activities".
And Japan will for the first time form its own version of America's Marine Corps.The document, which Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe, calls "historic", promises that Japan will respond "calmly and resolutely to the rapid expansion and step-up of China's maritime and air activities".
