This explains America's culture of religiosity without religion: "God" talk persists but it means less and less, as Americans try and shoehorn secularist morality and philosophy into fast-eroding religious concepts.
Although the two women both insisted the gossip was false, talk persisted.
Talk persists of a plan to cure New Orleans's persistent poverty by keeping out the poor; and, in general, the poor have found it much harder to return.
And yet, despite this bleak reality, some talk persists of silver linings: less cash to spend means less materialism, a real change to "the definition of living well," as Jim Taylor, a vice president of Harrison Group, a market research firm in Waterbury, Conn., told The Times as the big banks melted down in the fall of 2008.
The agreement, which is subject to approval by the union's members, could ensure peace with the pilots as some talk persists of AMR's interest in buying Northwest Airlines in response to a planned combination of UAL, the parent of United Airlines, the world's biggest carrier, and US Airways.
In response, perdurantists distinguish two ways of talking about persisting things—an atemporal way, which takes in all times at once, and a temporal way of talking, relative to various times.
Then when he tells her that "within a month I may be rotting up there in the churchyard", she says: "Ugh, what a nasty way to talk!" He persists - "As soon as I know the worst, I'll send you a visiting card with a black cross on it, and then you'll know that the final filthy process has begun".
Yet the title talk persisted, as if the Knicks were either a) stupendously, irrationally overconfident or b) aware of something the skeptics were not.
The physiotherapists also talked about persisting hierarchy between professions, feeling that physiotherapists' status was viewed as inferior in the professional system, mostly by some MDs.
He seemed angry and not interested in talking, but Murphy persisted, and eventually the two became friends.
