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permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force
they advertised the durability of their products
How To Use lastingness In A Sentence
- For five cents I could buy five "cannon-balls" -- big lumps of the most delicious lastingness. Chapter 5
- Item: To lovers I devise their imaginary world, with whatever they may need, as the stars of the sky, the red, red roses by the wall, the snow of the hawthorn, the sweet strains of music, or aught else they may desire to figure to each other the lastingness and beauty of their love. Williston Fish (1858-1939)
- The book allows the reader to participate in his search and offers a vision of lastingness and perseverance.
- He writes in his introduction: What interests me is lastingness: how it may be attained. Nicholas Delbanco's "Lastingness: the Art of Old Age"
- Road and cried Abies Magnifica! not, noble fir?) a quarter of nine, imploring his resipiency, saw the infallible spike of smoke’s jutstiff punctual from the seventh gable of our Quintus Centimachus’ porphyroid buttertower and then thirsty p.m. with oaths upon his lastingness (En caecos harauspices! Finnegans Wake
- Real love, he asks; not the degraded things to which men give that great name, as to every passing gust of feeling, to every unworthy untamed emotion: but the divine quality, when to the "lastingness," which he requires, is also joined that which is the inner essence of Love, viz., sacrifice. The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises
- O you butlers, creators of new forms, make me of no drinker a drinker, a perennity and everlastingness of sprinkling and bedewing me through these my parched and sinewy bowels. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- Existence and the rationality of everlastingness are human intrinsic concerns, and. sustainable development expands such rationality in a broader space socially and globally.
- The inevitable chrysanthemum puns on the themes of lastingness and perpetuation reinforced and popularized this symbolism.
- The artist must avoid rigidity, must stay fresh and open to possibility, if he or she is to achieve "lastingness. Nicholas Delbanco's "Lastingness: the Art of Old Age"