This provides a definite sense of change rather than the more fluid slides.

"But there is a definite sense that we are here for a purpose."

"I'd say they're moving with a definite sense of purpose, wouldn't you?"

That computer she's got leaves a definite sense of what it's been doing behind it.

"Bajorans just have a very definite sense of personal space."

And so it was with a definite sense of relief that I discovered very little to have changed.

Afterwards, there is a definite sense that we are all in this together.

But there's a definite sense that the grown-ups have left the building.

They were in a definite sense connected with the successes I have just referred to.

"Perhaps the freshwater approach has a more definite sense of the 'right way to do economics.' "