To the Russian writer Ilya Ehrenburg, the building seemed "cast of one piece like a persistent thought".
The Internet hasn't shortened my attention span, but it has fixed a persistent thought in the back of my mind: Isn't there something better to do than what I'm doing?
However, standing on those stages, celebrating the graduation of a combined twenty blind and visually impaired teens, I couldn't shake a persistent thought: what Helen Keller worked so hard to do is not yet finished.
"What started as a thought — a very persistent thought — has now become a course of action that I wish to pursue," Mr. Biden wrote in an open letter to his constituents in April 2014.
As Frede argues, skeptics find themselves with a rather persistent thought, without having accepted it as true in actual fact.
An obsession, as the name suggestions, means the individual's thoughts and feelings are completely dominated by a persistent idea.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder is characterised by: (a) recurrent, persistent thoughts, ideas or images (obsessions) that cause marked anxiety or distress, and are experienced as intrusive and inappropriate, and (b) repetitive, purposeful and intentional behaviours (compulsions) that the patient performs in response to an obsession in an attempt to reduce his/her distress.
So many other birds here crowd into our field of view chickadees, of course, like a persistent, nagging thought, and doves and finches and juncoes and even bluebirds, lining up, in their passage, to drink from the eavestrough.
I got an office job for a few months after leaving university and it was the persistent thought of hopping on Greek ferries, and exploring the islands, that made me chuck it in and head to Greece, without a contract, to write the first Rough Guide.
I was ripe for it: my marathon was a month in the past, maintenance runs were turning into repetitive blurs of street lights and drizzle, a half-read copy of Feet in the Clouds was glaring at me from my bookshelf, and there was the persistent thought of: "What's next?".
There's nothing particularly bad about this production just the persistent thought that the endeavor was unnecessary.
