definitiveness

The sense of definitiveness that recorded evidence brings is left over from a time before cellphones, when this material was hard to come by, so we thought of it as a special and incontrovertible resource.

It was the definitiveness of both developments that stood out after months of political, medical and economic turmoil: At last, Americans can look ahead to the day when they will be immunized from the COVID-19 virus even if takes until spring.

Benjamin Schwarz, reviewing it, says that Moore “has produced a scrupulously evenhanded work. His use of evidence, absorbed from vast archival sources and hundreds of interviews, is punctilious, his judgments measured, his wit dry and sympathetic, his prose classically balanced. This sonorous, authoritative biography makes no empty claim to definitiveness. But it is a work for the ages: It will be the font from which every serious appraisal of Thatcher and Thatcher’s Britain draws.”

This sonorous, authoritative biography makes no empty claim to definitiveness.

I had known that the definitiveness of my announcement would make my parents listen.