Sentence examples for resolutely shut from inspiring English sources

The door stayed resolutely shut, the windows adamantly blank.

When they've all declared themselves, discard the holdouts that remain resolutely shut.

Each match was similar in that the Celts ran and ran, but the Italian door kept resolutely shut.

His arrival in The Town (ITV1), sunglasses rammed firmly on nose, face unreadable, mouth resolutely shut, is rather more ambivalent.

And, whereas the fireflies of years past seemed to go on glowing in your hand, these resolutely shut down.

Vettel was struggling to pass Raikkonen's Lotus in the closing stages despite running much fresher tyres, and the Finn frustrated his best chance by resolutely shutting the door in Turn Four and leaving Vettel to make his own arrangements.

So when she gives in and is on the ground snorting up the drugs that a moment ago she bravely tossed away, you can feel her pain and humiliation when Mariah sees Bess and immediately and resolutely shuts her out.

Felix shut his eyes resolutely.

To their credit, not a one of the nine did any audience badgering, nor did they single out those choosing resolutely to keep their traps shut.

They supported the confederation, occasionally shut the door to immigrants, and were resolutely, some would say slavishly, devoted to the British Empire and Canada's place in it.

Mary Blair was so distraught at the fear of losing her fostered son, that she shut herself in at home and threatened to take her own life; Leo resolutely decided to stay with the only mother he had known, in the Glasgow tenement where five or six families shared a lavatory.