As for his pious, hectoring father, Thornton often felt "an awful rage" toward the man's "perpetual" attempts to "swamp my personality," yet endeavored to remind himself, again and again, of Amos's "wonderful and beautiful qualities".
Trump's equivocation on Russian meddling is among the biggest examples of his perpetual attempts to dismiss unfavorable coverage as "fake news" and "to create a different version of reality," PolitiFact's editors note.
Fashion exerts a harmful pressure on the intellect, which either cravenly caves in and accepts the soothing notion that "quality living" means a discerning collection of gouaches and a rather nice taste in wines or chooses to resist the tide of fashion and attempt the perpetual effort to separate truths and values from both parasitic public-relations gimmickry and the scent of power.
After 38 Qd4, if Karpov did not want to resign, he should have tried 38... Qd2 39 Qa6 Ne6 40 d7 Qa8 41 f3 Qa2 42 Qd2 Qa6 43 Kg1 h4, because it would force Gelfand to guard against perpetual check attempts.
David Miliband said he wanted to spend more time with his family, and not to be the focus of "perpetual, distracting and destructive attempts to find division" within Labour.
I genuinely fear perpetual, distracting and destructive attempts to find division where there is none and splits where they don't exist, all to the detriment of the party's cause".
This was a perpetual frustration to those attempting to make their lives alongside him (and those subsquently writing about him), but it was one of the motor forces of his art.
Various attempts at perpetual motion machines.
Another unsuccessful attempt to create perpetual motion by violating the first law of thermodynamics was the closed-cycle water mill, such as one proposed by the English physician Robert Fludd in 1618.
If Republicans in Congress and in state legislatures throughout the country spent as much time attempting to save human lives from gun violence as they do in their attempts to ensure perpetual tax breaks for the rich and super rich, then maybe we would have comprehensive gun control.
