How To Use Resolutely In A Sentence

Representing France, Jean-Marc Bustamante conjures a ‘Pavilion of the Amazons,’ which centers on four large color photographs of solitary, unsmiling young women standing in resolutely unpicturesque landscapes.
They have to turn aside resolutely from the beaten track. For Whom The Big City Tolls
Hai!” switching the camel, and fruitlessly endeavouring to fustigate Mas’ud’s nephew, who resolutely slept upon the water-bags. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
The story is set resolutely in the present.
What's most distinctive about this mordant comedy of manners is the resolutely awkward cinematography. Times, Sunday Times

To do pioneering work, he or resolutely abdication, preparation is barehanded make the world.
He is a resolutely loutish, wantonly violent thug.
He resolutely hacked off the cable and the sail slipped down.
His resolutely secular wife, Asma, fits photogenically into the picture of a modern republican dynasty and works to promote civil society organisations. Syria is yet to play its cards
But Stoiber is resolutely on the same side as the Chancellor on the Kirch issue - even though they will be rivals for the chancellorship later this year.
Two nights earlier, at the University of the Streets, she performed "Raging Waters, Red Sands," a mostly through-composed suite that blended shuo-chang , an ancient Chinese narrative form, with a resolutely downtown Manhattan musical vernacular. A Singer's Arrival, in Her Own Words
We resolutely oppose such and practices that contravene facts and undermine China - US relations.
Polly Vernon measures out her relationships in three-minute songbites and asks if there's a compromise between resolutely Rock and completely, madly Pop
And thirdly, despite having always been resolutely opposed to sexism, lookism and shapeism I couldn't get over how ugly the crowd was.
If you can't see how even the most resolutely period-costumed production of Don Carlos maybe just might have some pertinence to current political realities, then you're just plain obtuse. Archive 2007-09-01
Still, a shadow crosses Jack's resolutely clouded eyes as he detects a snag in the plan.
A resolutely mainstream, rather tepid drama, it politely uses the devastating 1976 earthquake in Tangshan as a backdrop for a family saga. Michael Giltz: DVDs: Craig Ferguson... Genius?
He resolutely hacked off the cable and the sail slipped down.
The dog ludicrously albeit lovingly christened Precious Baby by Ted's late wife and resolutely called PB by Ted himself - hesitated at the doorway and blinked out at the street, where the autumn rain was falling in the sort of steady waves that presaged alengthy and bone-chilling storm. A Traitor to Memory
Agesilaus resolutely answered, on the behalf of Phoebidas, that the profitableness of the act was chiefly to be considered; if it were for the advantage of the commonwealth, it was no matter whether it were done with or without authority. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
He resolutely refused to speak English unless forced to.
Resolutely accentualist in his outlook, he argued in a series of ‘Letters,’ that trisyllabic feet, whether dactylic or anapaestic, are fully congenial to English, ‘in spite of the Antijacobin’.
She resolutely ignores me, making a theatrical show of turning away and yawning.
Her gray eyes filled with tears, but she blinked them back resolutely.
The EU's executive arm will this week float proposalsfor joint issues of bonds amongthe currency's 17 governments, but Germany is resolutely opposed to the idea. What's News: Business & Finance
It is bliss, Lindsay House, a set of elegant Georgian rooms where you can eat a menu that is both seasonal and resolutely un-modish: braised hare with polenta, rabbit terrine, pike and eel pâté, braised chicken with colcannon.
Mrs. Frost was ever on the alert lest any of her smaller children should get in the way of these huge rubber-tyred vehicles tearing along at reckless speed, -- and old Josey Letherbarrow resolutely refused to go outside his garden gate except on Sundays. God's Good Man
He is resolutely behind a modern integrated rail system for the capital.
In New York, Mr. Prieto quickly began realizing his musical ambitions, which straddle jazz and Afro-Cuban traditions and lean resolutely forward. A Propulsive Force for Jazz
He resolutely adhered to what he had said at the meeting.
She resolutely refused to learn about computers.
They remain resolutely opposed to the idea.
Because recorder players are resolutely pig-ignorant where string instruments are concerned.
Mr Clarke has shown himself to be resolutely opposed to compromise.
He's quite amusing and articulate in a resolutely uncomplicated way and had a huge listenership generating vast advertising revenue. Times, Sunday Times
The two turned resolutely toward Olympic stadium and Mephistopheles, the torch held high, rode in woozy disbelief as they carried him to his destiny. Clarification
As, for proof, now: a purse of gold most resolutely snatched on Monday night and most dissolutely spent on Tuesday morning; got with swearing “Lay by” and spent with crying “Bring in;” now in as low an ebb as the foot of the ladder and by and by in as high a flow as the ridge of the gallows. The first part of King Henry the Fourth
Do we feel pride in Jeb because he swells his chest and resolutely juts his cleft chin?
We are resolutely agnostic on that issue; as far as we can determine, the evidence does not yet justify an estimate.
Just one of his guiding principles, that nothing should be built higher than the clerestory of the Minster, has insured that it remains a resolutely low-rise city.
She walks resolutely away, conscious of being spied upon by a ghostly face at every window.
As flames rage in the night sky, the youngest daughter laughs uncontrollably at the spectacle of her resolutely bourgeois family, sellers of sour pickle and malt coffee, literally going to hell in a handcart. Christa Wolf obituary
Whereat I stood musing and commending to my selfe the ingenious and apt inuention of the Arthist, in the vse of such a stone, which of his owne nature to contrarie proportions affoorded contrarie coulers, and in such sort as by the raysing vp of hir small plummage aboue hir seare, hir beack halfe open, and hir toung appearing in the middest thereof, as if she had beene resolutely intended, and eagerly bent to haue gorged hir selfe vpon it. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
He waited a moment or two as if willing to give the old woman time to speak: then, when he saw that she kept her thin, quivering lips resolutely glued together he called his corporal to him. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel
She took it out again resolutely, and read it with some difficulty. Sowing Seeds in Danny
Pressed beyond the limits of forbearance, our army fought back resolutely and dealt telling blows to the enemy.
The United States remains resolutely opposed to this.
And thirdly, despite having always been resolutely opposed to sexism, lookism and shapeism I couldn't get over how ugly the crowd was.
For this reason, China unwaveringly pursues a foreign policy of peace and independence. It resolutely protects its national independence and sovereignty and opposes.
She was unmarried still, and without boyfriend as far as he knew, remaining resolutely independent since a brief and disastrous live-in relationship in her early twenties.
Tipped to tumble, Motherwell now surf the wave of just one loss in six games thanks to an unexpected capacity to maximise the sum of their unremarkable talents and convert it resolutely into a winning equation.
Yet now, resolutely, as only a man can do who is capable of martyring himself for the cause of science, he proceeded to violate all the fineness and delicacy of his nature by making love to the unthinkably disgusting bushwoman. THE RED ONE
He grumbles at his lot instead of resolutely facing his difficulties.
It is perfect and subtle stuff: smoky from the eggplant's grill-induced char, with a light, nubbly texture more interesting than a resolutely smooth purée's.
It is perfect and subtle stuff: smoky from the eggplant's grill-induced char, with a light, nubbly texture more interesting than a resolutely smooth puree's.
We need to resolutely work to reorient investment by shifting the government's priority in infrastructure investment to the countryside.
Whatever expensive item was placed in front of him, his insula remained resolutely 'blasé'. Times, Sunday Times
Reflecting the primacy of kinship bonds, tribes are resolutely egalitarian, segmental, and acephalous - to use terms favored by anthropologists.
The Red Army used infantry and cavalry units to move more resolutely and to a deeper depth.
He saved resolutely, took a year-long executive-training seminar and, while working in Atlanta for Siemens AG, started researching the food business. Dreams Come True. Or Not.
Australian films were resolutely populist in this period.
They are classically English: not modest exactly - hardly that - but undemonstrative, reticent, resolutely undramatic.
Peace and stability - even 'humanity' - are preserved by resolutely autonomous, sceptical, relativistic individuals. The Times Literary Supplement
But it seems there is one area in which he is resolutely schtum. The Sun
Oh! Any gonoph can see that the man was murdered for the stuff!" resolutely said McNerney. The Midnight Passenger : a novel
She conducted herself with calmness and firmness, and she resolutely refused to be undermined and bullied by those around her.
The Red Army used infantry and cavalry units to move more resolutely and to a deeper depth.
he entered the building resolutely
Brown, have been somewhat too resolutely robbed of the formal avenues, clipped hedges, and other topiarian adjuncts which comport so well with the starch prudery of things Elizabethan; but they are still replete with grotto, fountain, labyrinth, and alcove -- a very paradise for the more court-bred rank of sylphs, and the gentler elves of Queen Titania. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper
And resolutely down on fresh milk production and adulteration of the offense.
A tall American walked in resolutely and shook a fistful of chits in the barman's face. Burma
At the beginning of the war America remained resolutely aloof. Times, Sunday Times
Mr Clarke has shown himself to be resolutely opposed to compromise.
Resolutely unglamorous, Chadsey's young men, no hunks, preen and pose, sometimes grotesquely transformed by superimpositions that seem to be materialized projections of their fantasies, like the vulpine shadow in "Portrait (Pink Beak)," the black mud luchador mask (or terrorist balaclava) in "Blackface Rod," the dangling penis in the standing/spread-eagled protagonist of "Marines," or the extra sets of arms in the androgynous "Red Head (Shift). ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States
But Demetrius, whose courage did not sink, resolutely sent him answer, that, though he were to lose ten thousand battles like that of Ipsus, he would pay no price for the good-will of such a son-in-law as Seleucus. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
I am merely communicating a growing near-term cautiousness in the context of my resolutely bullish long-term stance on gold, silver, and related mining stocks. Undefined
Utterly absorbing, and resolutely uncategorisable. Times, Sunday Times
He has turned a resolutely deaf ear to American demands for action.
What's most distinctive about this mordant comedy of manners is the resolutely awkward cinematography. Times, Sunday Times
Among the food-bearers a boy sheltered himself behind the rest and gazed irresolutely about the zareeba. The Four Feathers
There was mime and a resolutely modern organ piece one evening, between announcements and prayers.
My kids are not so resolutely sweet-toothed as I was at their age, so with the right kind of cajoling and suggestions, Ihave an outside chance of getting aremarkably well-balanced meal cooked for me. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's recipes for cooking with children
The United States remains resolutely opposed to this.
We must sharply pose the question of who is to lead and must resolutely combat capitulationism in view of the grave situation described above.
I haven't gotten a grasp on all the nominees yet, but so far I'm resolutely not surprised across the board.
His Scouse accent is resolutely unsoftened by regular contact with vicars and other representatives of the lecturing classes.
she resolutely refused to look at him or speak to him
She's resolutely unshowy and, it has to be said, hugely charismatic. Times, Sunday Times
It is a fery discretion answer; save the fall is in the ort ‘dissolutely:’ the ort is, according to our meaning, ‘resolutely:’ his meaning is good. The Merry Wives of Windsor
More liberties," Janet indignantly declared, and after the first visitation or two she resolutely set her face against what she called the answering of impertinent questions. Janet's Love and Service
Acting in this spirit, and resolutely proceeding on our determination to avow our obligations to the authorities we have consulted, we frankly say, that to the note – book of Mr. Snodgrass are we indebted for the particulars recorded in this and the succeeding chapter — particulars which, now that we have disburdened our consciences, we shall proceed to detail without further comment. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
Such an ambitious credo sounds incongruous coming from someone whose debut album is not only innovative but also seems resolutely uncommercial.
‘We've got to fix it right now!’ she declared resolutely.
Good", sweet caring girls stuck to prams and dolls' houses while "real" rumbustious, daring, active boys were given cars, guns, boats and planes It's a tribute to the sticking power of stereotypes that, as many more men are taking on child-rearing duties hence, perhaps, the reason why the everyday pushchair looks like an aeronautics gadget and more women are seen on the battle front, the kingdom of toys remains resolutely segregated on traditional lines. Lucky boy raised without gender stereotypes | Yvonne Roberts
He hoped that with the ironclad guarantees incorporated in the Constitution, the Services would resolutely stand by the Constitution and the law even under the most trying circumstances.
Despite dozens of cycles of declinist foreboding, the country has resolutely refused to decay.
Then resolutely Jurgen put aside the spell that was befogging him. Jurgen A Comedy of Justice
Angela had loathed it-like the Union, it was plebby-but for once Vandam had resolutely defied her. The Key to Rebecca
Unlike Great Gram's inflexible and resolutely unambivalent tales, Gram's story is about the difficulty of recollection, the fluid quality of experience, the changing nature of feelings.
Was it not his father who had resolutely argued a case for the necessary acquisition of bourgeois culture in order to succeed?
But she, white-faced and trembling, resolutely shook her head and watched the fray with all her eyes. Bunches of Knuckles
Nicole stared resolutely at the rusted floor, refusing to look at him. THE DEVIL'S DOOR
We have resolutely to stop our ears to the baser, which is often the louder. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
He's resolutely adult, more mature and perhaps more cautious of the world.
What's most distinctive about this mordant comedy of manners is the resolutely awkward cinematography. Times, Sunday Times
The conference, like the concept of ecological design itself, ran the gamut from the supremely practical to the resolutely idealistic.
My brain remains resolutely awash with the ineluctable fact of Anna's confession. LOVE YOU MADLY
Pressed beyond the limits of forbearance, our army fought back resolutely and dealt telling blows to the enemy.
The experiment lasted three months and since then, while two of his students have implanted magnets into their fingertips to play around with ultrasonics, Warwick has remained resolutely human. 50 years of cyborgs
The City is resolutely apolitical. Times, Sunday Times
But Safin resolutely stood his ground time after time, waiting for his chances. Safin handles Sampras with ease
The mood here is resolutely up.
The script's language is resolutely modern. Times, Sunday Times
It is, as I have already suggested, a worldview that resolutely refuses to absolutize relative perspectives (a tendency that H. Richard Niebuhr identified as the single greatest source of evil). 2008 Election
Although resolutely cheerful in his reworking of genres, he retains traces of the anxiety and high-minded intent of his predecessors.
For another good example of this we only have to look at Japan, where every conceivable instrument was used to try and reflate the economy but the Japanese consumer resolutely refused to respond.
In 1978, when I first read Crummell and Delany and Bishop Turner in preparing to teach a course on the origins of Pan-Africanism, I was as surprised as my Yale students by the resolutely racial character of this nineteenth-century nationalism and by what we would now call the Eurocentrism of its cultural understanding. 'The Multiculturalist Misunderstanding'
Neverthelesse, after long deliberation, honour gave way to love, and resolutely he concluded to steale her away, whatsoever became of it. The Decameron
But pigtails - a combination of two such resolutely un-marketing speak words - exudes adorability. Times, Sunday Times
Instead the Minister has produced a divisive, confrontational Bill which will be resisted ever more resolutely by right-minded rural people.
Some philosophers - usually called libertarians - resolutely believe that voluntary decisions actually are created by the will, free of causal antecedents.
Female interviewees were, once again, resolutely vague or "forgetful" when it came to the proper names of European officials or settlers, although they had little trouble recalling their nicknames in Shangaan. Where Women Make History: Gendered Tellings of Community and Change in Magude, Mozambique
A friend of mine, a lady, when fresh in the country once compromised herself rather astonishingly by lending an ear to their multiloquence, instead of resolutely refusing her attention to all communication but that consisting of "yea, yea," and "nay, nay. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 87, March, 1875
Though the presentation was resolutely low-tech, the blocking was complicated and well rehearsed.
The stern utterance of the word dismayed him, and, like one shut out from hope, he rose, as if to leave her, but paused irresolutely, looked back, then sank down again, as if constrained against his will by a longing past control. Pauline's Passion and Punishment
The new art rock, however, is resolutely white, resolutely middle-class: a reassertion of old cultural hierarchies, not a celebration of their disentangling.
It must have been traumatic – the demon claims to have taken the tutti out of frutti, after all – but the song remains uptempo and Hawkins 'scatting is resolutely delirious. Readers recommend fantasy songs: the results
My heading remains resolutely north, the last pink remnants of a fine sunset glowing over the fields to my left. Times, Sunday Times
The guard looked forlorn beneath the shallow visor of his helm, but he nodded resolutely.
My brain remains resolutely awash with the ineluctable fact of Anna's confession. LOVE YOU MADLY
But no matter how hard politicians tried to impose a political frame on those riots, they were resolutely apolitical. Times, Sunday Times
The speaker was resolutely off-message, however, when he gave the keynote speech at the Press Fund lunch.
Epicharis, when questioned and confronted with Proculus, resolutely denied that she had ever held any such conversation with Proculus as he alledged, and feigned the utmost astonishment at what she termed the impudence of his accusation. Nero Makers of History Series
The Romans, who will resolutely overwhelm an adversary with the might of arms, they say Phoenicians are deceitful and sly.
The script's language is resolutely modern. Times, Sunday Times
If you’re a licence fee payer but find yourself abroad for any reason then you can’t watch BBC content on the iPlayer, while videos from the successful Hulu service remain resolutely US only. Boundaries in cyberspace
For years, I have watched bemused from the sidelines at weddings, wondering how it is that everyone else in the world seems to know how to perform those allegedly traditional Scottish dances as I remain resolutely clueless.
(I resolutely resisted the temptation to take the easy road and use modern words as loan words in Sumerian, which would have ruined the whole experiment). Boing Boing: January 11, 2004 - January 17, 2004 Archives
It was this sentimental hint that gave a reasonable hope of taking her mind off the runes, and the harassed philologer set himself resolutely to the task. The Collectors
In fact, where he might have taken the opportunity to obfuscate his support for the war, and therefore distance himself from the most immediately unpopular episode of the Prime Minister's tenure, he has resolutely stated that he is for it.
But this might just be wishful, conventional thinking about a novel that is resolutely concerned with metanarrative rather than narrative. The Times Literary Supplement
This latest show, however, confirms that his art is still resolutely factual and transparent, and his commitment to a kind of painterly formalism undiminished.
But, however one teases out the strands, the rug remains resolutely tangled.
One of the first things you pick up is that Coronation Street is resolutely apolitical. Times, Sunday Times
One is not advocating a return to the complacent and conformist themes of studio biographies, much less historical falsification, but then a filmmaker has to advance resolutely toward something new.
At the beginning of the war America remained resolutely aloof. Times, Sunday Times
A woman walked resolutely through the elements, hunched within her worn, sopping cloak.
Dick Stockton, the blandest, most resolutely inept announcer the nation has ever produced, turns up everywhere: on TBS misidentifying the right fielder in the Major League Baseball playoffs, then later that same weekend getting everything wrong during the football game on Fox. Revenge of the 60-Year-Old Has-Beens
There are, in short, perfectionist reformers as well as religionists, who wait to see the salvation which it is the task of humanity itself to work out, and who look down from a region of ineffable self-complacence on their dusty and toiling brethren who are resolutely doing whatsoever their hands find to do for the removal of the evils around them. The Complete Works of Whittier
Stepping resolutely forward, the red-head lifted the heavy brass knocker.
But Williams dug in resolutely, as she has throughout her winning streak, and broke Davenport back to begin a run of six straight games. V. Williams wins women's U.S. Open crown
The great majority of revolutionary populists resolutely rejected the deception and unprincipled adventurism of a few untypical deviants like Nechaev.
We should advocate doing Business in an honest way and resolutely oppose giving short weight.
Postmodern theory is resolutely opposed to such ‘essentialism’, but the problem with anti-essentialist approaches is that they often involve jumping from one extreme, scientism / biologism, to another, culturalism.
Then he arose resolutely from that mastabah, and began to search for us, while we fled from him to the right and left, and he saw us not; for his sight was blinded; but we feared him with a violent fear, and made sure, in that time, of destruction, and despaired of safety. Nights 537-566. The Third Voyage of Es-Sindibad of the Sea.
If one is at war, it is vital to the successful prosecution of that war that those fighting it and the nation as a whole remain resolutely behind the conflict. Archive 2007-08-19
We must sharply pose the question of who is to lead and must resolutely combat capitulationism in view of the grave situation described above.
Mr Clarke has shown himself to be resolutely opposed to compromise.
From the contemplation of this inescapable judgment he turned his face resolutely away.
It should have made for a tense and nervy finish but the goal provided the wake-up call as City switched back on the concentration button and defended resolutely thereafter.
Isis nodded resolutely and the two managed to retreat to an appreciable distance from the alley, before the girl finally broke down on the tramway; sinking to her knees in the process.
Good", sweet caring girls stuck to prams and dolls' houses while "real" rumbustious, daring, active boys were given cars, guns, boats and planes It's a tribute to the sticking power of stereotypes that, as many more men are taking on child-rearing duties hence, perhaps, the reason why the everyday pushchair looks like an aeronautics gadget and more women are seen on the battle front, the kingdom of toys remains resolutely segregated on traditional lines. Lucky boy raised without gender stereotypes | Yvonne Roberts
Rockwell remains resolutely, immovably on the mild side even when he goes "serious," as in his famous "Four Freedoms" series from 1942. Norman Rockwell exhibit opens at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
He has turned a resolutely deaf ear to American demands for action.
Eliza resolutely pulled and chivvied her friends towards the taxi rank.
When she was saddled with ‘neighbours from hell’, the mother-of-four resolutely set about keeping a record of the antisocial activities that were ruining her life.
The genial tone and resolutely unreligious perspective do, however, produce a certain leveling effect.
If the people about you are carrying on their business or their benevolence at a pace which drains the life out of you, resolutely take a slower pace; be called a laggard, make less money, accomplish less work than they, but be what you were meant to be and can be. Daily Strength for Daily Needs
Mia resolutely refused to talk about her illness.
The discussion really wasn't so much about "ethics" as it was about insuring that most of the assumptions motivating mainstream book reviewing remain resolutely unexamined. Book Reviewing
But I am resolutely in love with my jaunty little fringe. Times, Sunday Times
This latest show, however, confirms that his art is still resolutely factual and transparent, and his commitment to a kind of painterly formalism undiminished.
The band of forest outlaws is resolutely unthreatening, though there's every likelihood that this was Shakespeare's intention.
The painting's subject matter has, in subsequent years, been much disputed, or perhaps it is more accurate to say, resolutely evaded.
Despite squandering a fine chance early in the second - half, Emile Heskey was also resolutely on - message.
Academically trained and inclined, the Boston painter was resolutely out of step with his times.
Therefore, instead of a final dispensation, the story of a monster at the limit of the tellable concludes irresolutely, even incoherently.
If the enemy ignites war recklessly, we shall resolutely answer it with war and completely destroy the aggressors.
The food is resolutely Celtic in design - highlights include sturdy Stornoway black pudding with caramelised apples and a mustard dressing and waistline-stinging Dingwall haggis accompanied by neeps and tatties with a whisky cream.
Yet now, resolutely, as only a man can do who is capable of martyring himself for the cause of science, he proceeded to violate all the fineness and delicacy of his nature by making love to the unthinkably disgusting bushwoman. THE RED ONE
On the flip side, the back line was absolutely magnificent, it stood resolutely between an inevitable beating and a horrendous shellacking; time and again the young defenders repulsed attack, reorganised and regrouped the side.
At the beginning of the war America remained resolutely aloof. Times, Sunday Times
Saddam's saber-rattling, his accumulation of weapons of mass destruction, his brutal police state, and anti-American and anti-Israeli rhetoric were resolutely downplayed -- "certain Iraqi policies and activities" -- and Bush pronounced himself "pleased" with Saddam's willingness to attend the Jedda conference that Saddam himself had convened at the point of a gun. Geoffrey Wawro: Desert Storm Turns Twenty: What Really Happened in 1991, and Why it Matters, Part I of II
Eda said after the meeting to the outside world "(Prime Minister) did not have the sounds all around the ring and disturb the state of mind, but to resolutely fight down.
The problem with such a resolutely intellectualising approach to the history of museums is that the history itself is extremely partial.
Yet, the steady stream of jamadars who spend their days cleaning out the toilets of houses both modest and grand, a job that other domestic staff resolutely refuse to consider, is indicative of just how deeply rooted caste consciousness is.

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