pertinacity

Today, these artists have found recognition on a national level and their pertinacity has brought them strong following across the nation.

There is no doubt that, given patience and pertinacity, he can follow the first course at relatively small cost.

A stone at the top of a hill may start rolling, but it shows no pertinacity in trying to get to the bottom.

The Americans showed great pertinacity, and charged repeatedly with the bayonet.

For the most part the expression worn was one of determination and bulldog pertinacity.

They had not shown sufficient pertinacity in their inquiries.

But such is the scale, the power and the pertinacity of these formidable images that we don't want them to hurry back.

It will require pertinacity to the farthest limit of permissible police conduct.

"Noted for his pertinacity," muttered Michael, as they disappeared.

"It must have taken a special pertinacity to maintain a distinctly Slovak identity," she writes.

But finally, through sheer, grim, bull-dog pertinacity, he was successful.

"Sure, it's settled," Lite agreed, with more than his usual pertinacity.

--The pertinacity of her friend seemed more than she could bear.

His pertinacity, saw him not give up.

"A tribute to the pertinacity of the inveterate gambler, wouldn't you say?"

It followed my footsteps with a pertinacity which it would be difficult to make the reader comprehend.

Without it, the motives which impelled the strange pertinacity of my pursuit would have been unintelligible.

'There may be those who could have laughed at his pertinacity; I didn't.

They too, I should think, were in luck, and I was sure their pertinacity would be equal to it.

As usual Lilburne contested every step with the greatest pertinacity.

It was no business of mine, to be sure, but with none the less pertinacity did I occupy myself in attempts to resolve the enigma.

Time and again he kicked away the toad-like creature, which returned with noisome pertinacity.

Not knowing who or what he was, I was at last a little annoyed by the pertinacity of this steady stare.

With his usual pertinacity, he pursued this new line, and on 8 April 1940, he wrote to me: