Sentence examples for talk persistently from inspiring English sources

Tyrannical regimes are less likely to make deals with you if you talk persistently about overthrowing them.

By Alex Quarrier and Brendan Gill The New Yorker, October 27 , 1945P. 15 A mother contrived to buy a pair of roller skates for her eight-year-old son, who had talked persistently of roller skates all last winter.

Mr. Norris not only points out how insufficiently racial attitudes have changed over the years — especially in terms of a continuing sense of otherness — but further comments upon American society's general decline in civility as the mostly self-absorbed characters are frequently distracted by their cellphones and persistently talk over one another.

If you talk at them persistently enough, and use a friendly face, they will keep fucking with their parents until they get the Jell-O pudding they want.

Then there was talk of the persistently stagnant economy and political infighting hampering swift delivery of resources to the affected populations.

The former New Zealand international managed to get himself sent to the sin-bin while in possession for persistently talking back to referee Steve Ganson.

They include a requirement that Turkey sign a customs agreement that recognizes Cyprus "within the next few weeks" and a clause to stop the talks if Turkey persistently breached human rights or the rule of law.

The late-night talk show is a persistently fenced-in format (as Emily Nussbaum and others have observed), but it seems just possible that Colbert, with his deep and fearless weirdness, could be the guy to find an open range there.