Sentence examples for resolutely contrary from inspiring English sources
Some adolescents define their autonomy by being resolutely contrary, and often do damage to themselves (and others) by being deaf to common sense or to appeals to common standards just to stay contrary.
Rhetoric and smiles to the contrary, this Administration remains resolutely statist and, when it comes to free markets, clueless.
I resolve to resolutely restyle my resolutions.
But it is conservatively wrought, even for the 1950's; resolutely tonal; and to most ears other than Mr. Menotti's own (he has spent a lifetime arguing the contrary), indebted to the sound-world of 19th-century Italian verismo.
The English Parliament, on the contrary, was convinced that it would be lasting, insisted on cutting down the size of the army, and resolutely turned its back on foreign affairs.
Peterson is resolutely alarmist.
"No," he says, resolutely.
"Birgit Prinz," he says resolutely.
Instead, he seemed resolutely businesslike.
"I suppose," Sallie said resolutely.
