"If you think 'coaching' is cheesy," she persisted, "you can call it 'consulting.' " I thought about the word "consulting".
Against the backdrop of all her later triumphs from competition victories to concert tours in parts of the world that had never seen a harpsichord to hundreds of recordings (including the first complete traversal of J. S. Bach)—the most remarkable thing is how she persisted through the most trying of circumstances.
Or is she ridiculing those feminists who persist in claiming her for their own?
"She knew full well the enormity of her offense," Finch tells the jury, in his summation, "but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it".
"Stay woke," "Break down walls," "Love is the resistance," "Nevertheless, she persisted," "I am a Gloria," "I am a Malala" and "I am a Michelle". The last model hit Gurung's runway wearing a black skirt with hand-embroidered silk fringe, a white bandanna knotted around her left wrist.
The rush of emotion in this expectation took her by surprise: most of her feelings, over these past months, had been muted, as if she were persisting through grim effort.
But she's persisted because she "was willing to adjust dance from being a big thing in my life to being a much smaller piece, at least from what people see on the surface".
As with How to Be a Woman, the novel is wittily written but, if she persists, Moran is in danger of becoming to female masturbation what Keats was to nightingales.
Whatever the intention behind Representative Ferraro's original comments, she is truculently persisting.
While she described her field as "fascinating," she was persisting on the academic track and maintaining her faculty choice goal because "I'm really interested in where we are [and] getting to the finish line.
I could feel it being hashtagged, like "she persisted".
