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.
We have been fooled by a sense of false security, of permanence.
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.
Across England there is a desire for a sense of permanence and security.
It is the government's responsibility to look after the bulk of the people and their permanence and security".
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.
At the very moment that Larry is desperately grasping for a sense of permanence and security, he is faced with the perplexing apathy of his peers.
But insularity is by no means synonymous with security or with anything approaching permanence.
It is instructive to note that in the course of the 15th century the progress of the three-generation lineage of Josetsu, Shūbun, and Sesshū can be described as a movement from physical permanence and relative security to a peripatetic existence necessitated by political instability and from conservative to more generalized or secular themes.
