I was on strike today... The general mood is one of weary determination not to keep quiet and take it.
The defiance that came so naturally in the aftershocks of Hurricane Katrina has gradually yielded to weary determination.
He had left in him now only a kind of weary determination to see this to the end.
His face was tired beyond human endurance, but his rusty voice rasped in weary determination.
At first Viktor seems like a holy fool with a funny accent, but the pouches under his eyes and the weary determination of his posture tell another story.
Occasionally an ironer lost the stride for an instant, gasped or sighed, then caught it up again with weary determination.
As Pete, a sturdily built actor, Mike Finesilver, carries the burden of an unhappily single working man with weary determination.
This was a challenge, he insisted with weary determination.
And he walks with a weary determination, aware of the effort it takes to put one foot in front of the other without stumbling.
Now he often sings about how to endure loss: with stoic clarity, steadfast guitar chords and a weary determination.