Sentence examples for a persistent hope from inspiring English sources
Among their many aspirations for his presidency, Barack Obama's admirers nurse a persistent hope that he might be able to end the culture wars.
There does seem to be a persistent hope on the part of investors (and some of the financial press, too) that we will return to the high-flying days of the late nineties.
This is a question poets are particularly suited to asking, and Lerner explores the qualities of different American registers — from the ecstatic, ridiculous experiments of rapping teen-agers to Sarah Palin's moralistic drawl — with a wonderful precision and a persistent hope that we can learn "as a people how to speak".
Their motivation stems from a need to keep families together, and from a persistent hope that the system can be changed.
"The boys had grown up with a notion," Mr. Sokolove writes, "that baseball could somehow set things right -- a vague, unexpressed but persistent hope that even if life was rigged, baseball might be fair".
Yet our persistent hope for a strong and good and even a great President is not altogether a childish thing.
Resilience can mean many things -- fatalism, endurance, persistent hope and an ability to make the unusual normal.
And on that slender but oddly believable premise hangs our story of deception, despair and some surprising aspects of persistent hope.
"Sail away, sail away," Sarah Cracknell of Saint Etienne coos in "How We Used to Live," the nine-minute mini-suite that sums up "Sound of Water" as it drifts between distant, unhappy memories and persistent hope.
Despite nasty efforts to legislate discrimination and stand between women and the basic healthcare they need -- in the name of religion, no less -- the persistent hope of Easter threads itself in and through this especially contentious Holy Week.
Wall Street ended the week with a rally fueled by a White House plan to help deadbeat homeowners, a release of tame inflation data, and persistent hopes that a Federal Reserve rate cut is around the corner.
