Sentence examples for mere perseverance from inspiring English sources
Despite the struggle to survive, the goal wasn't mere subsistence or corporeal existence but a life, entailing a nuanced inner life — the life of the imagination, of fancy and dream, of dramas and, for that matter, of comedies that surpassed the ordeal of mere perseverance.
Cooper was a popular writer, and this, to Poe, was a good sign that he was a bad one: "The most 'popular,' the most 'successful' writers among us (for a brief period, at least) are, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, persons of mere address, perseverance, effrontery — in a word, busy-bodies, toadies, quacks".
Hierocles, in his work Elements of Ethics, explains how this process is initiated, a mere act of perseverance.
The gap between the present tense (reality's tense) and the future conditional (where dreams and aspirations reside) is usually a wide one, traditionally bridged by sweat or perseverance or an optimistic attitude or mere good luck.
Filling a mere 12 seats each dinner took all the humility and perseverance I had learned on this journey, if not more.
But when Aying wags her finger at Redford with the perfect blend of accusation and warmth, or unsuccessfully tries to dismiss her occasional flashes of hostility as mere jokes, or finally turns a ratty shoelace into a totem of perseverance, these flaws melt away.
Still there is nobility in their perseverance, a belief that defiance is in itself a small triumph and that mere survival is a kind of blessing.
A mere whiff of steroid use is enough to sully the reputation of any athlete, whereas players who recover from TJS are praised for their perseverance.
