perdurable
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The specter of this guilt -- this perdurable archetype of the hostile homecoming -- animates today’s encounters, which seem to have swung to the other unthinking extreme.
From BusinessWeek ● Aug. 2, 2011
Protected in their green river valley by the desert's barriers, the ancient Egyptians constructed perdurable institutions, of which the pyramids remain as awesome symbols.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ford agrees about the need for a perdurable relationship, advocating periodic 15-minute visits to the physician by somatizers.
From Time Magazine Archive
But the steady gleam of the picture is the inimitable, jug-eared, perdurable Clark Gable, 45, back from the wars and still going strong.
From Time Magazine Archive
By whirling winds from ashy ring, Of dank weeds blackly smoldering, The peak sprang upward a quivering And perdurable, set its face Against the pulsing breast of space But for a moment to its base.
From Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems by Crawford, Isabella Valancy
