perdurable

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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

Ford agrees about the need for a perdurable relationship, advocating periodic 15-minute visits to the physician by somatizers.

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

By whirling winds from ashy ring, Of dank weeds blackly smoldering, The peak sprang upward a quivering And perdurable, set its face Against the pulsing breast of space But for a moment to its base.

From Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems by Crawford, Isabella Valancy