And here again Lucious has to contend with the fact that his struggle to build a legacy is persistently at odds with his conflicts with his sons individual ambitions.
This followed the recent release by various auto companies, notably a partnership between Mitsubishi Motor and Peugeot, of plans to design and build an electric car amid growing concerns over persistently high oil prices and global warming.
Over this period it was painful for me to watch them cover their skin with Nazi symbols and build their criminal records like résumés, their life choices persistently alienating themselves from a general society they've pegged as the enemy.
Slowly, persistently, even shamelessly, he built his cafe society clientele, catering to those people whose money would grant him immunity from the ravages of the Depression.
It's missing the ability to build real-time information widgets, put your most used apps in a persistently visible dock, or organize your collection of apps into folders.
The result is a genuinely fascinating piece that takes a while to build and may, at the outset, disconcert the accent police with the more persistently adenoidal sounds of the women in the cast.
It was Holder that persistently dealt with policing matters, and just this month even announced a new federal initiative to study racial bias and to build trust between law enforcement and communities.
On my first Sunday off I ventured outdoors, on to Sydenham high street, and persistently giggled – so Lorna told me – at the fact that the street was built on a slope, so that people coming down it were stumbling over themselves, while those going up were panting and staggering effortfully.
Allen built up his career over five decades and kept at it persistently, even when scandal, or a bad movie, or a bad article, would cast gloom over his entire career.
