But try telling that to the majority of Monday night's viewers, who stood, or even sat, resolutely in one place as the dancers strode about.
Clad in her favorite shirt, she sat resolutely in the corner by herself, crying, reading short stories by Dave Eggers (raised in Lake Forest, but that's coincidental) and calling old friends from her cellphone.
During a visit to the royal enclosure at Ascot, she protested at the fact that women were not allowed to place their own bets, and sat resolutely reading Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza instead.
It sat there, resolutely dripping, one drop at a time, and I felt a chill crawl over me.
Now for the first time, researchers have made and photographed a superfluid drop that resolutely sits still--even when its perch is tilted.
The first time I saw her was at a book launch in an English pub - long before her media-training - where she sat with her back resolutely turned on the journalists present, completely engrossed in the circle of musicians with whom she was playing.
It is the same person - warm, intelligent but so resolutely normal she could be your next-door neighbour - who sits opposite me in a quiet corner of a London hotel.
We transported our lazy son Charlie on a tagalong (second time lucky!) after a previous attempt to get the lad pedalling on a steep forest trail resulted in downed tools, small arms crossed resolutely as he sat stubbornly in the mud.
Inevitably, retailers will be turning themselves inside out to lure any potential customers, as consumers sit on their wallets even more resolutely than they did during the holiday season.
In December 1997, when he first arrived at Midwood, Eugene would sit alone in the cafeteria, barely able to speak English yet resolutely determined not to be fazed by the experience.
