When I asked Dore Gold, an external adviser to the Netanyahu government, about AIPAC's prospects, he spoke in determinedly upbeat tones, dismissing the Iran-sanctions episode.
So it was that much more of a surprise to sit through the opening scene of the Young Vic's otherwise wonderful production of The Member of the Wedding and find Carson McCullers spoken so determinedly off-key; things improved once the visiting American actress playing Portia took the evening by the scruff of its potent neck.
Last year, the air force received only three new aircraft.During his presidency, Vladimir Putin spoke of reform, but he didn't act determinedly.
As I watched the short film it dawned on me that I'd never spoken to someone that determinedly sober in my entire life.
Directly in front of me she speaks very quietly but very determinedly.
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Objectively speaking, the Second Symphony seems less conservative than determinedly reactionary, but in a way that makes it typical of its era.
Determinedly too: he travelled to Portugal to speak to Ricardo Horta and persuade him to sign, literally turning up one day and announcing to Horta: "Hello, I'm Mario Husillos, you don't know me but I want you to sign for Málaga".
At once suave and stuffy, he speaks in a phony, pseudo-academic voice that's slightly prissy and determinedly above it all.
But the very sight of the stooped, palsied 81-year-old pope shuffling determinedly toward the podium to deliver his remarks was a statement that, as he had told aides earlier in the week, he felt it was more important than ever after the attacks to carry on and to speak of brotherhood between Muslims and Christians here in Central Asia.
