Sentence examples for persistent triumph from inspiring English sources

"In the persistent triumph of hope over experience, we both still cling to the expectation that we can persuade the other that he is mistaken.

The persistent triumph of specific experience can be found in something as idiosyncratic and bizarre as the opening image of a boa constrictor swallowing an elephant, which, the narrator tells us, the grownups can only see as a generic object.

A pragmatic view of how words work is the only view of them that accounts for our persistent tiny triumphs and sudden comic errors.

To grab more, it needs to exploit not just its classic name, but also its old race-winning reputation.That is why there are persistent reports that Triumph is developing a new racing bike.

Perhaps he would show himself to be not a technician but a leader, willing to address the subtle corrosion in the Clinton years -- corporate dominance of politics, citizen apathy, persistent inequality, and the triumph of private interest over a vision of the common good.

One suspects that the experience of Poland has fed a conviction that persistent nonmilitary resistance can ultimately triumph even over a police state with superpower backing.

You can't mistake the glee with which Frank Oz in "What About Bob?" (1991) savors the spectacle of a psychiatrist's descent into gibbering idiocy, and the triumph of the persistent, multiphobic, cheerfully manipulative analysand named Bob.

But there was one thing they said at their moment of triumph that is a strange, persistent tic with prizewinners everywhere: "It's been completely humbling".

But they don't recognize these tendencies for what they often are: not signs of religious conservatism's growing strength and looming triumph, but evidence of its persistent disappointments and defeats.

They will be spurred to new triumphs that will finally reverse the persistent decline in American education and the American way of life.

The candidates who withdrew, several of whom had close ties to previous military governments, asserted that persistent electoral fraud by the generals had guaranteed Mr. Bouteflika's triumph.