pertinacity, inexorable. business as usual

Many people think that Alzheimer’s is a one-way street to inexorable decline. A neurologist disagrees
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Living Well, Even With Alzheimer’s

Many people have the idea that Alzheimer’s disease is a one-way street to inexorable decline. But the disease exists on a spectrum, writes neurologist Gayatri Devi, and patients can remain active and engaged.

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He gave up painting in about 1770 to concentrate on literary pursuits, his health shattered by an accidental dislocation of the right arm and his second wife's death in 1782. With unflinching pertinacity, he struggled until he had completed a likeness of the king upon which he was engaged at the time, and then started for his beloved Italy, leaving behind him a series of fifty royal portraits to be completed by his assistant Reinagle. For several years he lingered in the south, his constitution finally broken. He died at Dover on August 10, 1784.

Not in Landover Hills -- At Least So Far, Proprietors Say It's Business As Usual
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(It's) business as usual. SAYING

said when things are continuing as they always do, despite a difficult situation

pertinacity
NOUN: The quality or state of being pertinacious: “Again and again … with the inexorable pertinacity of a child … did he renew his efforts” (Nathaniel Hawthorne).



pertinacious ━━ a. しつこい, がんこな; 根気強い.

Main Entry:

per·ti·na·cious

Pronunciation:

\ˌpər-tə-ˈnā-shəs\

Function:

adjective

Etymology:

Latin pertinac-, pertinax, from per- thoroughly + tenac-, tenax tenacious, from tenēre

Date:

1626

1 a: adhering resolutely to an opinion, purpose, or design b: perversely persistent2: stubbornly unyielding or tenacious

synonyms see obstinate

— per·ti·na·cious·ly adverb

— per·ti·na·cious·ness noun

— per·ti·nac·i·ty \-ˈna-sə-tē\ noun

inexorable 

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈɛks(ə)rəb(ə)l/ 

ADJECTIVE

1Impossible to stop or prevent:the seemingly inexorable march of new technology

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1.1(Of a person) impossible to persuade; unrelenting:the doctors were inexorable, and there was nothing to be done

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Derivatives

inexorability

Pronunciation: /ɪnɛks(ə)rəˈbɪləti/ 

NOUN

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Origin

Mid 16th century: from French, or from Latin inexorabilis, from in- 'not' + exorabilis (fromexorare 'entreat').