perseverate

How To Use perseverate In A Sentence

• If, following a request to do a new task, he continues to perform the earlier requested action, he has perseverated. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
• This propensity to perseverate is sometimes self-destructive, as when I am unable to stop practicing a single piece on the piano or to quit solitaire, but George A. Akerlof - Autobiography
• This is nothing more than a pot-shot from someone who would've perseverated the discord. McCain again pans president's Iran response
• Uneasiness may perseverate, developing into intractable feelings that seem insurmountable. Jessica Zucker, Ph.D.: PBS's 'This Emotional Life': Postpartum Depression
• A common perseverated response is for the patient to fold the paper in fourths or eighths. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
• Republicans and the shouting class of Falstaffian blowhards -- minus Sir John's winning charm -- perseverated on Bill Ayers and socialism, "domestic terrorists" and dark meetings, and they crapped out. Kerry Candaele: Barack Obama And Sam Cooke on Election Night
• Also, it is important to note that even in the non-social condition, nearly half of the infants perseverated anyway. What Babies Pay Attention To
• We perseverate instead, and cannot resolve the conflict or make decisions. The Chemistry of Calm
• Bitterman and Couvillon found that bees tended to perseverate - to choose the color for which they had most recently been rewarded.
• Unfortunately, the argument is made with such perseverated, autistic-like frequency that even politicians on the Democratic side feel pressured to echo the same sentiments, though sugar-coated catchphrases fully acessorized with vague, impotent reassurances. Jeanine Molloff: The Character Issue, FISA and The Constitution