But where we don't actually intend to, we should be forthright about it — rather than pretending that change is perpetually just around the corner, and behaving as though our choices are justified by how much anguish we express while making them.
Better a change than perpetually adjusting the narrative around McCullough's schedule in such a way as to piss off the audience.
And they have to keep asking because as the objects perpetually change, so does knowledge and a sense of what matters.
A gnostic and alchemical symbol, Ouroboros expresses the unity of all things, material and spiritual, which never disappear but perpetually change form in an eternal cycle of destruction and re-creation.
The standards for greatness are fickle and perpetually change.
Due to the way in which language is transmitted between generations and within communities, language perpetually changes, diversifying into new languages or converging due to language contact.
The synaptic architecture of all of the connections between neurons in an individual's brain is a perpetually changing state that results from a combination of early development; nonstop, experience-dependent change; and the unique set of genetically determined protein receptors mediating attention, motivation, and memory in that individual (for an overview, see Eshel [2007]).
Realists condemn humanity, they say, to a world that never changes, where great powers perpetually lord it over smaller states, whose sovereignty and democratic enfranchisement are thus severely curtailed.
Leibniz later defines the term monadic conatus, as the "state of change" through which his monads perpetually advance.
When the UN Food and Agriculture Organization announced January 5 of this year that food prices had reached an all time high, my colleague Gawain Kripke warned that, "the record rise in food prices is a grave reminder that until we act on the underlying causes of hunger and climate change, we will find ourselves perpetually on the knife's edge of disaster".
