Sentence examples for kept perpetually from inspiring English sources
"Prisoners are provided only enough food to be kept perpetually on the verge of starvation," the report says.
Resources are kept perpetually scarce, while the procedures for obtaining them (achieving "platinum status," for example) are kept infernally confusing.
But Koons chose to amplify the seductiveness of commercial aesthetics to extremes, as with his sleek, factory-fresh vacuum cleaners in illuminated Plexiglas cases: dirt-collecting machines kept perpetually spotless.
There is this odd view of women in the kingdom as being always on the cusp of dissolute behaviour – reminiscent of an attitude towards slaves who would rebel and murder their owners if not kept perpetually oppressed.
Writing of her time in the Quiverfull movement, Garrison has said that "using any form of birth control was tantamount to playing God, so I was kept perpetually pregnant or nursing, or both for more than 11 years".
An event most often criticized for being self-indulgent and self-congratulatory — so over-long, repetitive and predictable that the host is all but required to joke about its absurdity — this year's Academy Awards was a strange compilation of atonal moments in which the audience was kept perpetually off-balance.
School in those days was full of such irreconcilable confrontations that made the world seem at times like one of those remote controlled toy cars that, left unmanaged, would keep perpetually knocking against the same wall.
Yandex Probki issues periodic white papers on the state of traffic, and maintains a blog with interesting traffic highlights, but its main task is to keep perpetually updated a now iconic three-color street map of the city, showing real-time traffic flow on a number of routes.
Of course, this didn't happen on account of runaway growth in the economy or anything -- it was driven mainly by promises from central-bank chiefs in the U.S. and Europe that they would keep perpetually plying the market with easy money, writes Jonathan Cheng of the Wall Street Journal.
Eight dancers in drab costumes by Josué Asselin prowled about the stage, which Susan Hamburger's lighting kept almost perpetually dim.
"Seinfeld" was famously said to be about nothing, and, indeed, the characters' problems were none, or few; still, for nine seasons the friends — George, Elaine, and Kramer — kept themselves perpetually annoyed.
