Sentence examples for persistent idea from inspiring English sources

And it was an astonishingly persistent idea.

He had got over the persistent idea that she was thinking.

"We have this persistent idea of old-time rural changelessness in this country," he says.

Another thing holding Europe back is the persistent idea that failure is something to be ashamed of.

A persistent idea in American democracy is that everyone, regardless of condition, should have a fair chance.

The memory stayed with Prina over the years and, as he said recently, "art comes out of a persistent idea.

Both Germany and Turkey are similar in having persistent ideas of "race" and "blood" defining the nation.

But persistent ideas about racial differences continue to be a source of prejudice and violent crime.

Obsessions are persistent ideas, thoughts, impulses or images that are experienced as intrusive and inappropriate and that cause marked anxiety or distress.

This problem is compounded by persistent ideas in villages that violence against women is a private matter – in Cambodian customary rules, a "fire" – which women have a responsibility not to spread beyond the home.

Nonetheless, humanistic and behavioural ideas had to contend with culturally powerful and thus strongly persistent ideas of character defects as they were applied to people with alcohol problems in US treatment systems and society more broadly 39.