Sentence examples for old and persistent from inspiring English sources

Value-laden distinctions between high and low, elite and popular art are old and persistent.

So old and persistent did Mother's unhappiness seem that I had never stopped to ask its cause.

It is an old, and persistent, American affliction,an odd one for a democratic people:a weakness for dictators with charm andguile and a "modernist" veneer who ruleexotic, dangerous lands.

There is considerable evidence, from the nature of the faunas and their distribution, that anchialine habitats are both geologically very old and persistent [1], [25], [83] so providing a potentially persistent "Tethyan" time capsule of which Bundera is the present manifestation.

Duncan White in the Daily Telegraph wrote: "Whitehead's achievement is truly remarkable: by giving The Underground Railroad a new mythology, he has found a way of confronting other myths, older and persistent, about the United States.

And for my own part, well-intentioned resolutions uttered at midnight in years past often have had a way of dying on the vine, choked by old resentments and persistent fears.

Depending on the country's perspective, euro bonds are either an old and particularly persistent rash (Germany and a few others) or an increasingly popular idea for addressing the region's economic plight (almost everyone else).

Without horizontal gene transfer, genes with broader and deeper phylogenetic distributions are necessarily older and more persistent than genes that are originated recently or do not tend to persist for long periods.

Anti-Semitism is the Western world's oldest and most persistent species of hatred.

What our dreams mean is one of the oldest and most persistent questions in human history.

The loss of children is one of the largest of human tragedies, and their finding is one of the oldest and most persistent stories of folklore: Moses; Romulus and Remus.