Yet Verlander and Bautista have two persistent mind-sets going against them.
I wasn't melting or longing for him to touch me or anything like that; the desire wasn't in my body but wedged in my mind, persistent and burrowing.
Selena Gomez doesn't mind persistent rumors about her sexuality -- in fact, she says she loves them. .
But it remained the first and most persistent question on my mind.
Nor have people seemed to mind the persistent rumors about the married Mr. Johnson's close relationship with an unwed woman who worked as a City Hall art adviser and whose baby, photographs showed, looked a lot like Mr. Johnson.
A person with whom you have shared your body might become but a niggling feeling, a vague, persistent nagging in your mind that you're forgetting someone, until you wake, bolt upright, in the middle of the night six months later and say simply: "Ian".
Never mind the persistent problems of sexually transmitted diseases.
And with that particular night's forecast calling for a low of 17 degrees with 10- to 20-mph winds, I was beginning to have a persistent vision in my mind of Jack Nicholson's frozen rictus at the end of The Shining.
But his suggestion that we replace it with a new, state-of-the-art, American-financed prison reflects his administration's deep and persistent misconstruing of the mind-set of the Iraqi people.
At last, the record is getting set straight: The Japan of that day was a fantasy in our minds as persistent as any Marxist variety.
Sometimes this is by design and other times it is upon the persistent scrutiny of enquiring minds.
