Intentional communication or illocutionary behavior are behaviors, "in which the sender is aware a priori of the effect that a signal will have on his listener, and he persists in that behaviour until the effect is obtained or failure is clearly indicated".
He persisted with a qualification that led parents and students up the garden path and has now withered on the vine.
One of his sisters assured him that their father was a dentist, not an astronaut, but he persisted in imagining that their father was on the moon.
He persisted in believing that people would eventually embrace a studious, serious candidate in a race filled with rhetoric-flinging rookie politicians and celebrity outsiders.
"David Cameron cut the cancer budget by £800m in real terms and, despite all the warnings, he persisted with an NHS reorganisation that disrupted cancer services.
"Every time I tried to do something humorous, people would say, 'What is that?' " Still, he persisted, producing a line of playful wooden animals with movable joints for Areaware.
She said that she rebuffed him, but that he persisted and sexually assaulted her.
"Long after he became prime minister, the impression persisted that he was more interested in holding the office than in using its power to achieve anything in particular," he writes in the preface to the book.
By the second grade, his teachers were summoning his parents to complain that the boy would not keep still, and that he persisted in questioning their authority.
But he persisted with a mantra that he later repeated to his players: Keep pushing.
