There he set up housekeeping with another teen-age girl, drank prodigiously, began taking morphine because of a lingering pain in his ankle, persisted in his work, dream of returning to France & getting recognition he knew his talent deserved, & died, one of the most abjectly miserable of men, on May 8 , 1903 at the age of 54.
There was also a self-deprecating quality which has persisted in his work, in the face of considerable material success.
While Gergiev seems to thrive on this hectic pace, he persists in offering work of uneven quality, not least because his schedule rarely permits adequate rehearsal.
Regardless of the challenges, Reveil persists in his work.
McGuinness persisted in working on his relationship with her, but to no avail.
Despite the tragedy, the Gazette's surviving staff persisted in their work in the hours, days and weeks afterward.
The tribunal persisted in its work despite what the report called sustained attacks by senior politicians on its integrity and on its members.
The family persisted in their work through years of political, economic and social turmoil, especially the collapse of the Soviet Union after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 when, Dr. Moore said, "funds for the program just dried up".
Through this program, I've learned the stories of many inspiring individuals who have been working steadily to build understanding and foster healing, who have persisted in their heroic work outside the media limelight.
Traditionalists on both sides of the art-craft divide found fault, but she persisted in work that came to assume a grand architectural scale.
A consequent malaise persisted in Bellows's work after the war, with rustic-tinged Old Master pastiches that pointed toward, and partly inspired, the rise of the nationalist American Scene movement of Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry.
