Whether he resolved his personal conflicts we may never know, but except for six months in a concentration camp during World War II, he enjoyed a comfortable, landed-gentry life in France to the end, his best work a bright footnote to a time when the future was something to look forward to.
Before the hurricane, Craig gives a party at home, and we learn that "few things made him happier than this, having friends in his house, with the music he loved playing," and after the hurricane, contemplating whether to return to New Orleans, he resolves not "to be a suburban squire in Chicago while the city he loved sank".
Judge Rakoff also said he would resolve whether Mr. Picard had standing to bring the Kohn action against UniCredit, and whether as the liquidator of Mr. Madoff's firm he had a right to sue on behalf of his customers.
Many Indonesians wonder whether he has the resolve and political capital to allocate such projects fairly.
The burning question, though, is whether he has the resolve to get out of businesses that the bank doesn't excel in, even if the near-term costs are high.
For his part, President Bush took off for a scheduled conference in Shanghai, leaving behind a debate over whether he had shown resolve by carrying on as planned, or had made a mistake in not staying put during this anthrax scare.
He also has called on Congress to lift legal restrictions on transferring detainees to foreign countries or to prisons in the U.S. The question is whether he has the resolve to veto a version of the next Defense Authorization Act if it continues to impose those restrictions.
Mr. Malone had a gun, though it was not resolved whether he had turned it on the officers; he was not unarmed.
Perhaps most triumphantly, I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face dramatises the battle within Higgins and indeed the battle within Shaw, before resolving whether he will allow himself to feel or not.
In announcing Mr. Kelley's resignation in an article on Jan . 13 the newspaper said it concluded a seven-month investigation of his work without resolving whether he had fabricated or embellished any articles in his two-decade career.
