Sentence examples similar to a gentle persistence from inspiring English sources
This book is a necessary rebuke to native liberal smugness, but delivered with wit, gentle persistence and a respect for history.
In front of her sat a younger woman, sedate and pretty, perhaps a teacher; some of us pictured her as the Henry Fonda character whose gentle persistence would finally win over her colleagues, as in 'Twelve Angry Men'.
The aroma of mushrooms came first, followed by the gentle persistence of cauliflower.
Twice, he approached female students who looked dejected and asked, "Are you O.K.?" With some gentle persistence, they broke into tears.
But more often it comes with the gentle persistence that the left in both the UK and US will have to show in the coming period.
His screenplay The Count of Solar (1992), for the BBC, was a beautiful story about the education of deaf children in the 18th century, in which his characters overcome difficulties less through miracle, sentiment or patronage than through gentle persistence.
The key was gentle persistence, to keep circling back.
-- my "gentle persistence". Arianna Huffington tweeted one of my stories.
It took Macy 25 years to get the full story, using "gentle persistence" and building trust with the remaining family members before they'd share the entire narrative with her.
Such a film is The Salt of the Earth, a gentle, beguiling biography of legendary Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, whose amazing persistence and facility for empathising with his subjects has produced brilliant work for more than four decades.
