Ms. Conner has an uncommon engagement with the uncommon landscape of China, and she has calmly and persistently watched it change during lengthy visits almost every year since 1984.
The clicking sound associated with time passing has long been a means of (getting across) the feeling of anxiety in cinema dramatic presentation of the passing of time to our own experiences of lying awake at night with the sound of our watches ticking, persistently reminding us that the seconds continue with or without us.
But what do the authors want editors to do? Push stories that their audiences have persistently refused to read or watch?
Indeed, the best way to appreciate this fascinating but uneven film may be to resist it, to watch it unfold in the persistent, persistently thwarted expectation that it will erupt into the hip-hop Mafia shoot-'em-up it stubbornly refuses to be.
Against my will I had to keep watching those two black companions who persistently marked out our movements ahead of us, like walking silhouettes, and it gave me – our feelings are sometimes so childish – a certain reassurance to see that my shadow was longer, slimmer, I almost said "better-looking", than the short, stout shadow of my companion.
Author remembers reading, during the 1966 World Cup, about a young Berliner, who, nagged persistently by his mother for staying home from work to watch the games, finally strangled her.
But at least now people don't have to pull up the formerly buried tools, and having the search box persistently visible could spark people to seek out more accounts to watch.
Seated before a television set in his cramped Mission Valley office, psychiatrist Tom Trunnell watches a videotaped therapy session in which he persistently questions a middle-aged patient.
Putin had to delight in watching Republican Party discipline in avoiding the subject of the hearing as they persistently focused on American, not Russian, threats to national security.
Worries about the strengthening euro and concerns over persistently high oil prices helped push German business confidence down in November, a closely watched survey showed Thursday.
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.
