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It half-works right up to the point where people start getting gassed, and then Benigni's moist-eyed heroism and tenacious faith in his own irresistibility start to seem like a monstrous ego trip--a clown's megalomania.
But the tenacious Papandréou was re-elected in 1994.
(Those malevolent imps are tenacious and bothersome: Robert S. McNamara, the former secretary of defense, was once seen by the Washington Post trying to "wriggle loose from his personal demons."
Many crimes are invariably referred to by initials, some of which belong to offences that have been super-seded--a good example of jargon's proving more tenacious of life than the things from which it arises.
An Ainu farmer speaks for the strange, tenacious hold of one's mother tongue: It's true the language is almost lost, but there's a lot of spirit still, so I don't think it's too late.