| They gradually perfected the process of drying the grass to fix the image with some degree of permanence. |
| For Zen, however, this need for permanence fossilizes what is both beautiful and sacred. |
| Women who are ambivalent about the permanence of the procedure should be counseled to strongly consider another contraceptive method. |
| There is something in a furtive glance of eyes on the subway, or from the passing crowd that does not tend to permanence. |
| They are unreadable inscriptions, and as such convey the permanence and provisionality of all inscription. |
| More difficult to handle than the immediate grief is the permanence of loss that sets in later. |
