lingered

Beltway Democrats were quick to declare the pandemic over, despite the well-documented economic dislocation that lingered.

At the end of what the players clearly knew was a performance of a lifetime, they lingered onstage, hugging one another.

I lingered to see if we might chat.

They lingered especially long into last week, before Ford came screaming across the field on a shallow drag route last Friday, deep in the red zone.

But the reason The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which has generated a whopping eight sequels and spin-off films, has lingered in our cultural consciousness for 50 years now has little to do with the mechanics of what happens on-screen.