perdurable

Example Sentences

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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

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

Glenn Ford, 61, perdurable, softspoken, intense Hollywood leading man, and Actress Cynthia Hayward, 30, his three-year flame.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 this also is vanity, there is one end appointed alike to all, fact goes the way of fiction, and what is known is no more perdurable than what is made. 

From Style by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir