Pinker agrees that although continuous is nine times more common in writing, continual "is said to be used for iterated events".
Kesha was inspired to write the song after continual rejection from the protagonist in the song, Stephen, who refused to call the singer.
Yet they all wrote on, despite continual psychic and physical torments.
The result, as he famously wrote, would be "continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short".
Mapping and interpretation was an iterative process, involving note-making and writing, with continual movement between the chart, codes, and full transcripts.
Dear Mr Porter, Your series of articles on civil liberty has prompted me to write on the wider impact of the continual assault on the rights of those accused of crime.
As Hamlet said of his imminent duel with Laertes, "I have been in continual practice", and I can write more powerfully and clearly in lines than I can in sentences.
Since 2006 my life has been a continual search for somewhere to live, somewhere to write.
In a continual process, we are assembling world-class technologists who have both the desire and the ability to write books.
In his landmark 1921 essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent," T. S. Eliot wrote, "What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable.
