Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word DETERMINEDLY

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Definitions of DETERMINEDLY

1. In a determined manner.

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Examples of Using DETERMINEDLY in a Sentence

• Oliver Boyd-Barrett, an academic specialising in Communications Studies, said in 2010 that Media Lens possess a "relentless commitment" to assessing the media "on criteria of rationality and humanity, for what they write and fail to write, and doing so in a tone that is determinedly polite and respectful, even when the content is highly critical".
• Ten years after its debut, Roxy Music has mellowed: the occasional stark piano chords in "While My Heart Is Still Beating," for example, recall the stately mood of "A Song for Europe," but the sound is softer, dreamier and less determinedly dramatic now.
• Q described Crash as "equal parts originality and willful complication", and stated, "Although the band's determinedly jammy methods do lead them away from their songs at times, almost every track of Crash is at least 'good in parts'".
• The melodies are trite, harmonies predictable, textures almost determinedly hackneyed (even down to artificial 'weather' effects to generate mood).
• " Angela Carter once wrote that Mitchell was "a joyous, acrid and demotic tumbling lyricist Pied Piper, determinedly singing us away from catastrophe.
• For example, they added a large pyre and murder of children and women; the 4,000 people seeking shelter in the fortress became 4,000 armed soldiers; Lithuanians bravely and determinedly defended the fortress but chose death over converting to Christianity and becoming slaves of the Order; Margiris cut his wife in half and then killed himself; the Teutonic soldiers were moved by the terrible sight and noble sacrifice and returned to Prussia without loot.
• These pathetic individuals have determinedly clung to their wrong statements of faith till the Divine scourge really overwhelmed them.
• In 1973, Mel Gussow of The New York Times derided the ending as "sentimental and unaffecting", and argued that Lear "is so determinedly a thesis play, an intellectual exercise, that there is scant consideration for drama".
• She talks to him and kindles a self-belief in the peasant, who determinedly tries to face the adversity waiting outside.
• This determinedly heartwarming pic with a tempo suited for sleepy TV viewers should hobble its way to family auds in ancillary markets.
• AllMusic's Michael Gallucci called Believe Cher's "latest playground move" and said that she "merely moves through the beat factory with one drab vocal range into one endless, and personality-free, thump session" and "determinedly, if not wholeheartedly, clinging to the tail end of it".
• Canham describes the film’s denouement: “Walter, having fulfilled his destiny in a determinedly Fascist manner, receives recognition for discoveries that are not of his own making; relies on the power and protection of a warlord to further his interests and ends up getting the girl whom he had constantly abused and cynically mistreated.
• Entertainment Weeklys Anthony DeCurtis complimented Blige's vocal embellishments and the album's "lush and spare" arrangements, stating "Musically, Mary is essentially a long, soulful, ballad-tempo vamp over which Blige alternately — and sometimes simultaneously — tells tales of faithless love, preaches the gospel of female strength, and determinedly clings to hope".
• Although it was acknowledged that the crews of both British ships had fought determinedly and skilfully, Stewart's ship-handling had been faultless.
• " Trouser Press also praised it, and wrote that it "retains the determinedly unpretentious vibe of the first album, but the songwriting and arrangements are surer and more fully realized.
• Etymologically, the term derives from "persevere", meaning "to continue determinedly", from Latin "perseverare", meaning "to persist": persistent behaviour directed toward an identifiable goal is called "perseverance", but when not directed toward such a goal is called "perseveration".
• In the AllMusic review of the album, which compares Spooky Lady Sideshow to Neil Young's Tonight’s the Night, it states the songs "were so saturated in controlled substances and so determinedly focused on self-destruction that they became a self-fulfilling prophecy…and instead of reinvigorating his career, the album was a misstep from which he never recovered as a recording artist".
• Wolves started determinedly and took a 13th-minute lead when Jesse Pye, who had been preferred to Dennis Wilshaw, stooped to head in an inch-perfect Hancocks cross.
• ” Kerouac determinedly “scribbled out in a strictly intuitional discipline at breakneck speed” the fledgling prose that would finally comprise the finished book for City Lights's Pocket Poet series eight years later.
• Sarra Manning of Melody Maker was critical, remarking that Tikaram's music was "plummeting to depths known only to champion potholers" with an album of "funereal dirges" where "the only mild exception is 'Yodelling Song', a determinedly uptempo exercise accompanied by the worst words in the world".
• " Nick Southall of Stylus Magazine said, "More rounded and less determinedly schizo than Fantasma, Point is a great album of delicious odd-pop made by a whimsically modest genius.
• With their self-funded recordings and determinedly uncompromising music Voigt/465 epitomised the do-it-yourself ethic of the alternative music scene of the late 1970s.
• It was again a wet track, and although Veandercross ploughed home determinedly, he could not catch the wet track stayer Subzero in the straight.
• Richardson," the author wrote,"— pedigreed, carefully spoken, determinedly nonthreatening — has become the schools' gay issues consultant of choice.
• In a review of the book, professor of politics Robert Manne pointed out numerous self-contradictions, and summarized it as a "hallelujah chorus in praise of his former leader" John Howard and a "hodgepodge of half-baked thoughts and determinedly unresolved contradictions".

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