purposeful

His words were purposeful, almost business-like, with the tautest of poetical flourishes.

In other words, the student should supply this purposeful omission by himself constructing the illustrations from the description.

This is why I have said that in the early part of Mr. Cowen's life he was his father—-placid but purposeful.

Here, then, in Zanzibar we have decidedly the most serious and purposeful form of Puss in Boots.

Crazed or purposeful, the beasts charged out into open land through a soft roaring of torn grass.

We ascribe to the child a strong disposition to real fear and would consider it purposeful if this fear were in fact a heritage.