permanence
Example Sentences
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But this is my third time back in Chicago as an adult, and the first that feels like more than a long layover — the first that’s starting to stitch itself into something like permanence.
From Salon
A meditation on construction, stone, concrete and the very concept of permanence, it is the latest challenge by Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky regarding the conventional ways people view the physical world.
Such tool use—notably hand letter-cutting in stone, producing forms like those we see on traditional monuments—stands for “materiality, for slowness, for permanence” in the face of boardroom brainstorming and assembly-line production.
It raised a question, however, that would be raised again six months later: Why did the market suddenly distrust a giant Wall Street firm whose permanence it not so very long before took for granted?
From Literature
Morgan Private Bank, has prompted themes of permanence and environmental stewardship.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
