pertinacity

Example Sentences

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In many ways, he was like a north star, his effervescent personality and endearing pertinacity emitting a guiding light through the sport’s most transitional times.

From Los Angeles Times

Mr. Trump made it clear that the Supreme Court decision would not slow a post-campaign campaign, the futility of which has dampened neither its ferocity nor its pertinacity.

From New York Times

Well-practiced in the art of pertinacity, he shrugs at the memory of his demotion, writing it off as another lesson from which to learn.

From Los Angeles Times

While this pertinacity draws its share of detracts, it also helped the Englishman force his way into a favorable -- and likely, proper -- ruling at the PGA Championship.

From Golf Digest

That sensibility more or less aligned with the mood of Clinton, whose efforts had the patient pertinacity of someone trying to make a case for something reasonable at the D.M.V.

From The New Yorker