| The museum's functionaries — from floor-polishing janitors to pertinacious scholars and fantastically skilled restorers — emerge as the film's heroes. |
| The Egyptians were pertinacious keepers of lists, and recorders of methods and procedures. |
| That is what it was to have a pertinacious father and to be an accommodating son. |
| And he escaped from pertinacious Mr. Dawson with some alacrity. |
| He knew she was only so pertinacious out of her love for him. |
| Behind these was the agent, punctual and pertinacious, who had come for the rent. |
