Sentence examples for persistent self from inspiring English sources

The technological and the biological intermingle: the mysterious hitman is pictured as "wolfishly professorial, in a coat of grayish green, the color of certain lichens", his hi-tech knife in action becomes "a long wet thumb" Technical language itself becomes a new metaphoric resource: Laney decides that he has no persistent self, just a collection of "sub-routines" in his brain.

Given that TLO are apparently equipped with the complete set of lymphoid structures, i.e., secondary B-cell follicles with GC and distinct T-cell areas containing dendritic cells and high endothelial venules [25], TLO may play a role in maintaining an autoimmune response against persistent self antigens.

In a B-cell that has lost negative regulatory signals from tonic antigen receptor crosslinking, chronic autoantibody crosslinking via persistent self or foreign antigen (model 1), multireactivity (model 2) or antibody self-association (model 3) could promote survival.

And he, along with Democrats across the country, will be helped by the Republican Party's remarkably persistent self-destructive tendencies.

She then went on to win the Olympic gold medal, which looked as if it might soothe her persistent self-doubt and propel her to greater success.

Her rise was helped along, naturally, by opportunism and persistent self-aggrandizement familiar traitself-aggrandizement familiarfied, or melodramatraits to an unusual degree.

Her rise was helped along, naturally, by opportunism and persistent self-aggrandizement — familiar traits, but in Palin's case magnified, or melodramatized, to an unusual degree.

What a perplexing mixture of opposites Yann Martel's long-awaited new novel turns out to be: clarity and confusion, insight and banality, boldness and a persistent, self-monitoring nervousness.

In nine tracks spread over 88 minutes on two CDs, they resume their collaboration like some mythical leviathan resurfacing from the deep: colossal, persistent, self-guided and oblivious to constraints on lesser creatures.

There is the resurgence of Roger Federer, who missed much of last season, and the stunning run of Rafael Nadal, who has been struggling with chronic injuries and persistent self-doubt, but who has, so far, showed his old tenacity instead of his recent timidity on the most important points.

Wetland networks and their many functions are linked to produce persistent self-emergent patterns and landscape resilience.