All 4 Uses
persist
in
This Side of Paradise
(Edited)
- "I don't care," he persisted gloomily.
Chpt 1.1persisted = continued (despite difficulty or resistance)
- ...and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it; at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 P.M. If you write me letters, please let them be natural ones.
Chpt 1.3persist = continue
- …and beware of trying to classify people too definitely into types; you will find that all through their youth they will persist annoyingly in jumping from class to class,
Chpt 1.3 *persist = continue (repeatedly)editor's notes: This passage goes on to say: "... and by pasting a supercilious label on every one you meet you are merely packing a Jack-in-the-box that will spring up and leer at you when you begin to come into really antagonistic contact with the world."
- Well, I began analyzing it—my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark—so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me—I let it play stray dog or escaped convict or ghost, and then saw myself coming along the road.
Chpt 1.4persisted = continued
Definitions:
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(1)
(persist) to continue -- often despite difficulty or to repeat a question
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)