When Gerrard is performing at his peak, something that persistent injury throughout his career has often prevented him from doing, there is a coldness about his demeanour on the pitch that makes him a formidable opponent.
Mike Faist, who plays the newsboy Morris Delancey, told the Covenant House group, "if you want something, be persistent, keep putting yourself out there and just believe that it is going to happen".
These included an improv show in which comedians acted out doomed dates; a po-faced documentary about women who suffer (not happily) from something called persistent sexual arousal syndrome; and an episode of a (very funny) series called "How TV Ruined Your Life," devoted to the dangerous false promises of love on the screen.
"It says something about persistent racial tensions between the community and the police," Kim said.
"There is something pretty persistent about the marriage of imagery and words and timing," Bloomberg Businessweek's editor Josh Tyrangiel said.
Brain scans and other lab findings might reflect something deep and persistent going on in the anxious mind.
After several weeks of this, other mainstream politicians are beginning to wonder whether howling is going to be enough to stop the Trump juggernaut; whether what started as an extension of Trump's reality TV fame and scratching an anti-establishment itch has morphed into something far more persistent.
SpamProbe handled these with aplomb, noting that over the weeks I had received 79 pieces of junk e-mail with the word "pluperfect," and 67 referring to something called a "persistent dashboard," terms that had never appeared in my legitimate correspondence.
It is also because jihadist terrorism is no longer seen, as it was immediately after the terrorist attacks of September 2001, as an existential threat, but as something nasty and persistent that can be contained and thwarted without sending hundreds of thousands of troops abroad.
