Sentence examples similar to tenacious perception from inspiring English sources

I know how it is to touch the luminosity of my being, and in no more than the time between two beats of the heart fall into a contracted world, fixed perceptions, and all too predictable reaction patterns, the old and tenacious "me". That is the circumstance we are in, caught between the light and the dark, heartfelt truth and blind ignorance.

This perception occurred again due to mentality: Ronaldo largely carried a now hollowed out, but once tenacious Portugal, while Messi crumbled with a stronger Argentina.

Mark Warner, a similarly tenacious glad-hander, went to rural Virginia again and again because, deep down, he needed to change people's perceptions of who he was.

"He was tenacious.

That guy was tenacious.

She is tenacious.

"He's extremely tenacious.

She's pretty tenacious.

"I'm very tenacious".

But tenacious he is.

But he is also tenacious.