Sentence examples for security and permanence from inspiring English sources

So it was a shock to discover that I was the ultimate cliched Little Englander – whingeing about lack of cupboards, scowling at dripping showerheads no one did anything about and (deeper, much deeper) pathetically longing for the security and permanence of my own four walls.

Flexible arrangements, layoffs resulting from reduced budgets, and payment mechanisms tied to performance have replaced the ethos of hard work, security and permanence of work.

The imagined union with their child, in conjunction with this feeling of ownership, provides mothers and fathers with a false sense of safety, security, certainty and permanence.

I don't think it's sentimental to say that the security, tactility, beauty, and permanence of printed books will remain significant selling points — and not just for five years, but for ten, twenty, thirty.

No one regarded the cylinders as permanent, and permanence wasn't what the ethnologists sought.

In the postwar search for security, permanence, and order, the earlier insurgent art seemed to many to be antithetical to these ends, and certain avant-garde artists radically changed their art and thought.

"He will replace certainty and permanence for something that is uncertain and not permanent".

Africa distorts your sense of time and permanence.

Writing, after all, gave poetry its visibility and permanence.

And permanence, by its nature, offers a pretense of truth.

Timelessness, monumentality and permanence were essential qualities for Moore.