Sentence examples for perpetual argument from inspiring English sources

The faith, MacCulloch notes, is "a perpetual argument about meaning and ­reality".

These people may be able to count their losses — a relationship doomed to perpetual argument; a jilted husband who can confide only in a gossipy old neighbor; sons who have made themselves strange and remote toward their parents — but they rarely wrestle with them, and they encounter the truth of their impoverished lives only in fleeting, painful moments.

"Treme," the marvelous, musical New Orleans-set HBO drama whose second season began April 24, takes its form from the city's substance; it does not so much present a point of view as embody a perpetual argument.

To quote myself, the series "takes its form from the city's substance; it does not so much present a point of view as embody a perpetual argument....It is romantic and naturalistic at once, as dreamy and earthy as the place in which it takes place — a place where when you die, they strike up the band.

It was a family of perpetual intransigent argument.

In art, there is a perpetual, facile argument between ancients and moderns, conservatives and champions of the new.

The United States was now in a perpetual state of war, the argument went, and the criminal approach to fighting terrorism — and the due process that goes along with it — wasn't tough enough.

While this concentration on Chaplin as a "Cockney visionary", heir to Dickens and perpetual Londoner, is psychologically helpful, the argument is over-worked.