Word: persistently
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes we realize but persist in our errors, in our mad self-love, and attempt to hide this selfism run amok, this violence, thereby making it all the more insidious. We look into our souls, and much like Dorian Gray's portrait, do not like the rancor and decay we see within. We then compound our errors by speaking different names for our actions, filling in well with the trends of political correctness. Witness the phenomena of "collateral damage" and selective reduction...
...even without delving into the meaning of the poems, the rhythm and meter are gently soothing. There is a sense that buried deep within lines is a truer, more complex essence. Maxwell's phrases are illusive and wispy, swirling around the fleeting, teasing meaning of his verse. Readers must persist to glean understanding from these intricate and enigmatic lines...
Okay, you win--some buildings have lifts. But once inside, problems persist. Eye-contact between closing doors never does much to improve neighborly relations; pressing the right button constantly begs a meal-like "pardon my reach"; and then staring blankly at the floor indicator is pathetic anyway, since the elevators only stop on at most every third floor...
...Possibly" is the key word because for now, dreamy values for Internet companies persist. The jig isn't up, and it may be that this isn't a jig at all. AOL, which has risen from $86 to $164 in the past five weeks, may indeed be the most profitable company in the U.S. some years from now, though last year it strained to make $92 million. It's certainly priced for success. With a market value of $166 billion, it's already more than two times as expensive as Ford, the reigning profits champ last year at $22 billion...
...memories of 1969 persist. The picture of an anti-war student in the Faculty Room of University Hall remains one of the most famous images of twentieth-century Harvard. Student activists ever since then have had to contend with implicit, sometimes unfair, comparisions to Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) at University Hall.The University remembers 1969, too: anyone who lives in a building constructed after the takeover can sleep soundly at night in a riotproof dorm...