persevere

Whether you choose to persevere or fall victim to the insensitive people you encounter during your walk of life, it's all up to you.

Sean perseveres with his dream to take to the stage, but instead of practising the traditional tap routine, he develops a new, raw rock 'n' roll type of dance that leaves everyone entranced and begging for more.

Recently, however, he did what so many of today's choreographers have been doing: He took time out from a full schedule to sit for a portrait by California photographer Rose Eichenbaum, as she perseveres in her ambitious project, "Movement Masters, Portraits of Great Choreographers" [see Dancescape, September 1998, page 12].

Still, Jorden perseveres, and the cognoscenti of the opera world wait breathlessly for the next edition.

Intransigent bureaucracies, arrogant senators, bumptious defense attorneys, md right-wing judges could drive insane even the most hardened prosecutors, yet Walsh perseveres. We glimpse the Judge doggedly pursuing the higher-ups, discovering juicy notes of meetings between the President and his cabinet while negotiating plea agreements with a few CIA and State Department officials, most notably Alan Fiers and Elliot Abrams.

Childhood perseveres within us, its friends and scenery fixed like the images in those small glass balls that, at a touch, inundate a familiar spectacle with snow.

Pius also explains in his commentary that the regularity of motion referred to in the text is a "law of motion" (lex motus), the category to which Newton ascribed his theory of inertia.(39) An atom filling in the void, says Pius, "perseveres" (perseveret) in its motion (Lucretius had said pergat).(40) "Persevere" is the word used by both Descartes and Newton to describe inertial motion.