John Major, Britain's prime minister from 1990 to 1997, had an image that was so resolutely bland that he was represented on the popular satirical television show of the time by a puppet with its face colored a deep shade of gray.
It is so beautifully written, so resolutely authentic that a New York Times critic wrote: 'If Charles Dickens were alive today, he would watch The Wire, unless, that is, he was already writing for it.' The paper also called it 'the television show that thinks it's a novel', which is about right.
Much of his stuff was so resolutely ugly that it too shone with a defiant sort of beauty.
Dent co-chairs an alliance of fifty-four modeRepublicansicansoso resolutely undogmatic that they call themselves simply "the Tuesday Group".
In Tuscany, business life revolved around small, interconnected firms, just as it did in Wenzhou, a city so resolutely entrepreneurial that it had resisted Mao's collectivization campaign.
Only a few weeks ago, Bayer Leverkusen's results vector was pointing so resolutely downward that there was talk of things being over for Roger in the cockpit, as experts queued up to explain that the dive down the table was all about Schmidt.
But their use of Kickstarter seems fitting for a project that was so resolutely homegrown: David wrote and directed the movie, Nathan produced and served as cinematographer, and both have supporting roles.
How they can live among so many white people so resolutely not seeing the forces that push so hard against their communities and their lives?
In its writing and direction, "Mrs. Pritchard" is so resolutely cheerful and straightforward that you really get the sense that Ms. Wainwright is committed to the politics the series presents: What governing bodies of the Western world need is more of a woman's sensibility and touch.
And he was, of course, in the same predicament as everyone else in that Novak Djokovic stood so resolutely in his path to the very summit.
