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    permanence


    1. The famous television gardener always said that the great oak leant the estate an air of permanence and solidity; that it was a link with the past of this small but great house; that it was history and should stand, like himself, as a symbol of greatness and stability forever


    2. that the great oak leant the estate an air of permanence and solidity;


    3. As the permanence of his stay was gradually made known to him, John had walked the difficult road of not losing heart, but there were times in the course of regular nightly prayers a desperate plea inserted itself


    4. It implied the lack of permanence, maybe the return to a “former self


    5. reveal a permanent moment of existence, a permanence that matters because further loss will be


    6. necessarily essential, but there had to be permanence in the relationship, of that she was determined


    7. It’s presence and permanence could only have been countered by the existence of an equal token of injustice


    8. With a huge fullness behind, and only emptiness ahead, this towering surge commanded a dominance that gave the appearance of permanence


    9. She closed her eyes and felt its permanence enter her skin and bones


    10. dominance that gave the appearance of permanence

    11. (The only truth is „there is no permanence")


    12. The only permanence on earth is change


    13. The only permanence at all is in Allah, in whom Muhammad believes with all his heart and soul


    14. Only when both partners are equally desirous, equally longing, equally committed, and celebrate their equality, is there hope of permanence


    15. They began to understand that there was an air of permanence in their fathers writing regarding his working in England


    16. This done, the knowledge of the spiritual permanence


    17. Stone was the key; the availability of stone was the common denominator of these ancient edifices which, in stone, were given permanence in time; Mycenaen time


    18. Many of the problems of human life have permanence and a touch of eternity about them, and hence the abiding interest in these ancient books


    19. ond transience and permanence; this is the ultimate being


    20. This Holy love attained through thinking of this wide universe as seen in the interpretation of Am’ma Part, which stated the obligation of looking and thinking of all the provisions given to us by God, both in and around us and its permanence

    21. The permanence upset him


    22. He could swallow the one-night stands but permanence was another thing


    23. What is it that grasps, and then lets go of grasping? It is this permanence that is forever changing, the flame of this truth that dances and flickers a thousand different ways and yet is always only burning


    24. � It's not that they and we don't live with qualities and choices we might want to rethink and renew, but calling any quality of self a "weakness" presupposed its near if not absolute permanence


    25. Only in the dominator model do we seek to attain permanence, to create the unchanging being that exists in the same way in every moment of all time


    26. � In all this apparent funniness and silliness, something very insidious happens especially when the relationship turns into an attempt at any real closeness and permanence


    27. A combination of many things about the entire castle area imparted a feeling of permanence to my new home; the formidable strength of the castle fortifications, the strong capable looking soldiers that manned her walls, the wholesome townspeople, who had welcomed me as their own, coupled with the beauty of the natural grandeur of the castle’s setting, not to mention the long standing traditions of the place


    28. He Who settled us in the Home of Permanence, by His grace, where boredom will not touch us, and fatigue will not afflict us


    29. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space


    30. Both in Plato and Aristotle we note the illusion under which the ancients fell of regarding the transience of pleasure as a proof of its unreality, and of confounding the permanence of the intellectual pleasures with the unchangeableness of the knowledge from which they are derived

    31. Moreover, on the free surface of the lake in Stephen's green amid inverted reflections of trees her uncommented spit, describing concentric circles of waterrings, indicated by the constancy of its permanence the locus of a somnolent prostrate fish (cf mousewatching cat)


    32. The necessity to counteract by impermanent sojourn the permanence of arrest


    33. Some attribute had departed from her, the permanence of which had been essential to keep her a woman


    34. In that old day, the English settler on these rude shores—having left king, nobles, and all degrees of awful rank behind, while still the faculty and necessity of reverence were strong in him—bestowed it on the white hair and venerable brow of age; on long-tried integrity; on solid wisdom and sad-colored experience; on endowments of that grave and weighty order which gives the idea of permanence, and comes under the general definition of respectability


    35. investigator, have challenged our lecturer's accuracy? It is upon the permanence of certain types of animal life upon the earth


    36. In real estate booms, the “reasoning” is usually based upon the inherent permanence and growth of land values


    37. One must understand the nature of a business to assess the inherent permanence of earning power


    38. The nature of the undertaking, considered apart from any figures, must be such as to indicate an inherent permanence of earning power


    39. Hence in such a case the student could have pointed out that the market price, bearing the usual ratio to current and average earnings, reflected a quite unwarranted confidence in the permanence of profits that by their nature were likely to be transitory


    40. Around the camp’s center were some signs of permanence, at least

    41. The pain of failing her brothers went back into containment, but the permanence of their loss, the unfairness of it, lingered even as every one of Ash’s nerve endings flared to life


    42. The first impression forced on me was that permanence is neither achieved nor desired by mobile people


    43. Only when agriculture came into practice—and that’s not very long ago in terms of the whole history—did a place achieve meaning and value and permanence


    44. He certainly wished her to go willingly, but he as certainly wished her to be heartily sick of home before her visit ended; and that a little abstinence from the elegancies and luxuries of Mansfield Park would bring her mind into a sober state, and incline her to a juster estimate of the value of that home of greater permanence, and equal comfort, of which she had the offer


    45. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it 755 of 967


    46. Know you that this bodily, animal life is born to-day and dies to-morrow; nothing can assure its permanence, no outward expedients, no system whatsoever can give it stability


    47. Understand that this casual, personal life which now comes into being and to-morrow is no more can have no permanence, that no external means, no construction of it can give it consecutiveness and permanence


    48. And in addition to this the state, for whose sake individuals renounced their personal advantages, is exposed again to the same risks of insecurity and lack of permanence as the individual himself was in previous times


    49. Governments were to give men freedom from the cruelty of personal strife and security in the permanence of the state order of existence


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    Synonyms for "permanence"

    permanence permanency continuation eternity

    "permanence" definitions

    the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration