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

The house is surrounded by 200 rosebushes, all tended by a very tall gardener with thorn scratches on his hands and a look of perdurable tweed.

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

Glenn Ford, 61, perdurable, softspoken, intense Hollywood leading man, and Actress Cynthia Hayward, 30, his three-year flame.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Moors had built upon it and characterized it, but had not so masked it as to hide the perdurable physiognomy of the Roman work.

From Familiar Spanish Travels by Howells, William Dean