Sentence examples for Persists in being from inspiring English sources

One page further along, she persists in being "crude and illiterate," and is now "slovenly".

Though he can't afford Rosalind, he persists in being heartbroken by her -- a sign that his larger ambition is unsurrendered.

And while my attitude used to be if you don't trust them, don't sleep with them, the world persists in being more complicated and darker than that.

While it's common knowledge that the cabinet should be routinely sorted through, with out-of-date pills and other medications thrown out, the cabinet persists in being an archive of old afflictions.

The success of representative government and its institutions depends to a great extent on the virtue of moderation, yet the latter persists in being absent from both the conceptual discourse of many political philosophers and the campaign speeches of politicians fearful of losing elections if they are perceived as moderates.

Why is it then that the "question of animal culture" persists in being a controversial, unsolved puzzle?

Francis James Child said that Lowell, whom he deemed was typically "perverse," was able to "persist in being serious contrary to his impulses and his talents".

Blues, it seems, hated Greens mainly because they persisted in being Greens, and vice versa.

This is a monumentally naff film, shaming and depressing in a way that British feature-film comedies have persisted in being, intermittently, all our lives.

If the Hurricanes are to persist in being rude guests, they will need more strong work from their highly underrated goalie, Cam Ward.

What always baffles me is why on earth anyone over a certain age would persist in being careful – with their diet, their habits or even their addictions.