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

With self-imposed fortitude, Sechele shout-sings the hymnal verses, "Give me joy in my heart, keep me praising/ Give me joy in my heart, I pray," as if he were the trumpet of perdurable faith.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is more interested in the use of things to give him the good life than in the possession of perdurable objects that will reassure him.

From Time Magazine Archive

When the domestic relationship is illuminated by a playwright of size, intensity and perception, it becomes the perdurable stuff of human existence.

From Time Magazine Archive

The palm as an evergreen tree and the amaranth a perdurable flower are emblems of immortality. 

From Consolations in Travel or, the Last Days of a Philosopher by Morley, Henry