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

The book, as its name suggests, would write finis to Travis McGee, the perdurable, persnickety shamus whose demise, white-haired Author John Dann MacDonald once vowed, would occur after his tenth color-coded* starring role.

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

But to many who had grown up with the syncopated ditty, Mississippi Mud seemed a solid, perdurable part of U.S. musical history.

From Time Magazine Archive

The primal object of religion is to disclose to us this perdurable basis of life, and foster our growth into communion with it.

From The Life of the Spirit and the Life of To-day by Underhill, Evelyn