"He's pretty persistent, your Gentleman Caller".
I had to be pretty persistent in order to get her to say yes.
And this is all of course the day after a friend casually said to me about a career in comedy and activism, "You have to be pretty persistent in your field, don'tcha?" And I literally spit coconut juice out my nose.
The founders must have used them to punch out emails on the icy Hague metro every day of the past month because they were pretty darn persistent.
Many concerned parents came to ask for help, she says, "but I was a pretty persistent one, going back, and calling Steve and saying, 'What are we doing here?' I am, by nature, a pest".
Given that this pattern of relating seems to be pretty deeply ingrained and persistent, irrespective of the particular friendship, I think it would be very worthwhile for you to seek some counseling to find out more about why you're feeling so insecure.
I'm also pretty persistent, so I added that in there for good measure.
"There is something pretty persistent about the marriage of imagery and words and timing," Bloomberg Businessweek's editor Josh Tyrangiel said.
