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the trait of being resolute
it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work
his resoluteness carried him through the battle
How To Use resoluteness In A Sentence
- This cult of irresoluteness, this satisfaction with pointing out the difficulties, this inability to make up one's mind and carry it out, recalls to me a jest in Punch about how the sculptors have carved many a hero seated on a horse but up-to-date have never carved a hero seated on a fence. Palestine As A U.N. Responsibility
- Lastly, in the very fever of my irresoluteness, I made with my body many such motions as men sometimes would, but cannot, if either they have not the limbs, or these be bound with bands, weakened with infirmity, or any other way hindered. The Confessions
- Solomin left his hat alone, the more readily as Sipiagin, who had observed his irresoluteness, exclaimed: Virgin Soil
- Negative beliefs are a source of shortsightedness, irresponsibility, irresoluteness and timidity. If you do not believe that you can create and control your future, you are unlikely to win in life. Dr T.P.Chia
- He worries about America's resoluteness in a long competition with China, already sees a "drift to antagonism" and fears it could lead to a war that might turn nuclear.
- I have seldom seen such grit, determination and resoluteness from everyone on a Waterford team.
- There is ample reason to think that these shows of weakness -- or, more precisely, of irresoluteness -- emboldened America's enemies. From the WSJ Opinion Archives
- You are the island of the wonderland, peaceful and fantastic, providing hope, dream, resoluteness and spirit.
- Negative beliefs are a source of shortsightedness, irresponsibility, irresoluteness and timidity. If you do not believe that you can create and control your future, you are unlikely to win in life. Dr T.P.Chia
- Challengers to the liberal international order take heart not only from Washington's irresoluteness, but also from the knowledge that they no longer have to worry about facing large-scale, effective coalitions of liberal states that may curb their larger ambitions. Angsty Allies