But as the prospect of war drew closer, pessimism and defeatism were replaced with a grim determination to confront the manifest evil of Nazism.

ECONOMIST: Britain between the wars

His grim determination is based on concrete realities.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

Good news, folks: Time Warner (disclosure: our parent company's parent company is owned by Time Warner) is facing a future of "download-to-burn" DVD movies with grim determination, and expects said apocalypse to occur sometime in 2007.

ENGADGET: Time Warner expects download-to-burn movies to hit in '07

This breezy piece of lifestyle propaganda is the exact opposite of what sports commercials typically are usually, they're sweaty, grim-faced mission statements about determination and victory.

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