Though determinedly microcosmic, she was never minor.
This vision, not yet specifically religious, though determinedly antimaterialist, helped launch Chesterton into the world that he went out to conquer.
But though determinedly pushing along in Martin Pakledinaz's shabby '30s wardrobe, Ivey isn't entirely recognizable as Williams's drowning-in-the-past Amanda.
Another faculty member, though, is determinedly timely: William Chase's "Mr. Ofili" is a modest-size portrait of the artist who recently caused a sensation in New York City with his unorthodox painting of the Madonna.
Though she remained determinedly on-message and positive, talking about the people who are "really, really hurting," her face and demeanor belied a weariness.
It is, rather, he claims, a celebration of "the most beautiful and fascinating country on Earth", though even the determinedly upbeat Engel cannot avoid an Anglo tone of loss and melancholy.
What the Old New Politics and the Obama Politics have in common though is a determinedly middle-class orientation and reluctance to take the politics of class at face value.
Mr. Mercer and Mr. Million stayed determinedly unsmiling, though eventually they couldn't help moving to the beat, and Mr. Mercer's voice and guitar leads grew more assertive and vehement with every song.
I happened to be in London on 7/7 — a far more deadly and frightening terrorist attack — and by 7 P.M. on that horrible day, with the terrorists still at large (they were dead already, but no one knew that), the red double-decker buses were rolling and the traffic was turning and life, though hardly normal, was determinedly going on.
If some of this at times strains credulity (Why doesn't he phone home? Tranquilise himself? Tie his ankles together?), Ferris holds on to his conceit determinedly, and though alive to its absurdity hardly plays any of it for laughs – that way Wallace and Gromit's The Wrong Trousers lies.
I happened to be in London on 7/7 a far more deadly and frightening terrorist attack and by 7 P.M. on that horrible day, with the terrorists still at large (they were dead already, but no one knew that), the red double-decker buses were rolling and the traffic was turning and life, though hardly normal, was determinedly going on.
