Popular literature, unlike high literature, generally does not seek a high degree of formal beauty or subtlety and is not intended to endure.
By the nineteen-fifties, American artists often used cheap, mass-produced materials that weren't intended to endure — at least, not across centuries.
By choosing to celebrate the holiday — as we came to celebrate the Fourth of July — we were staking our claim on this new life, declaring that, despite homesickness and hard winters, we intended to endure and make a permanent settlement.
After all, a Constitution is "intended to endure for ages to come," and must adapt itself to a future that can only be "seen dimly," if at all.
Their words sometimes were vague, laying a foundation for a later variety of views, but after all, it is not a statute, but a constitution we expound, as John Marshall, the first great Chief Justice, eloquently stated, and, he added, one intended "to endure for ages to come".
There is good reason for this––these bags are intended to endure being put through all sorts of outdoor punishment and they need to keep the wearer warm, sometimes in sub-zero temperatures.
