All 8 Uses
persistent
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Tender is the Night
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- She did this persistently until she roused him—the only matter of importance to her now was that in a few hours she would see the person whom she still referred to in her mind as "the Divers" on the beach.†
Chpt 1.11persistently = in a continuing manner -- especially despite difficulties or opposition
- "All my beautiful lovely safe world blew itself up here with a great gust of high explosive love," Dick mourned persistently.†
Chpt 1.13 *
- The hostess—she was another tall rich American girl, promenading insouciantly upon the national prosperity—was asking Dick innumerable questions about Gausse's Hôtel, whither she evidently wanted to come, and battering persistently against his reluctance.†
Chpt 1.17
- He wanted to sweep away her mother, remove the whole affair from the nursery footing upon which Rosemary persistently established it.†
Chpt 1.19
- Rosemary stood up and leaned down and said her most sincere thing to him: "Oh, we're such actors—you and I. She went to her dresser and the moment that she laid her comb flat against her hair there was a slow persistent knocking at the door.†
Chpt 1.24
- Not very, though—there's a persistent aroma of the nursery.†
Chpt 2.11
- She relished the foretaste of death, prefigured by the catastrophes of friends—persistently she clung to the idea of Nicole's tragic destiny.†
Chpt 2.13persistently = in a continuing manner -- especially despite difficulties or opposition
- XXII There were five people in the Quirinal bar after dinner, a high-class Italian frail who sat on a stool making persistent conversation against the bartender's bored: "Si ....Si ....Si," a light, snobbish Egyptian who was lonely but chary of the woman, and the two Americans.†
Chpt 2.22
Definitions:
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(1)
(persistent) continuing -- especially despite difficulties or opposition
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)