All 6 Uses of
persist
in
1984 by Orwell
- Then the face of Big Brother faded away again, and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out in bold capitals: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH But the face of Big Brother seemed to persist for several seconds on the screen, as though the impact that it had made on everyone's eyeballs was too vivid to wear off immediately.†
p. 16..3
- 'I likes a pint,' persisted the old man.†
p. 88..1 *
- And even now, though his intellect told him that the message probably meant death — still, that was not what he believed, and the unreasonable hope persisted, and his heart banged, and it was with difficulty that he kept his voice from trembling as he murmured his figures into the speakwrite.†
p. 107..9
- If he persisted in talking of such subjects, she had a disconcerting habit of falling asleep.†
p. 156..4
- What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?†
p. 262..9
- Moreover he was in dread that if he persisted in his disagreement O'Brien would twist the dial again.†
p. 269..4
Definition:
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(persist) to continue -- often despite difficulty