The phrase
"abiding sense" refers to a deep and long-lasting feeling or understanding about something. It implies that this sense or understanding remains constant over time and has a strong influence on how a person thinks or behaves.
Full definition
Go your own way and embrace a deep and
abiding sense of fulfillment that can't be found by following the crowd.
It was an era of gender fluidity and sexual freedom which held to a
deep abiding sense of «anything goes» as bath houses and clubs like Plato's Retreat flourished in the city.
Amid the strife of the Culture Wars and the heated partisan divides between Red and Blue states, one thing seems to bring together a great many Americans across both sides of the nation's secular / sacred divide: a deep,
abiding sense of amusement and incredulity — if not outright contempt — for purveyors and supporters of the so - called «Prosperity Gospel».
-- but there was
an abiding sense that, while a shift is underway in tech policy, Zuckerberg and his company were getting off with a warning for now.
Clearly, there's
an abiding sense that cryptocurrency is the new financial horizon.
Not to be lost in this attempt at continual redescription of ourselves is
an abiding sense of irony that our starting - point in language is largely the result of historical factors and our feelings of solidarity have no basis beyond that of our own subjective experience.
God is simply a projection of these desires, feared and worshipped by human beings out of
an abiding sense of helplessness.
And above all with
his abiding sense of the glory that shall be revealed.
Increasing moments and periods of intense closeness help to establish
the abiding sense of dependable oneness.
It is, so to say, a mediatorial task, although as such it is not one's own by any gift or quality which he or she may think to be personal to the minister; it is by designation to serve representatively for the mediatorship which Christian faith assigns to the Lord alone in any ultimate and
abiding sense.
It was a testament to
an abiding sense of British identity which Salmond's separatist politics can not quite drown out.
He requires «
an abiding sense of patriotism,» which he equates not with an urge to fight but with an inclination to do «the best you can do.»
Participants typically finish this cleanse feeling lighter, clearer, and more attuned to their body's innate intelligence — with improved digestive strength, healthier elimination, and
an abiding sense of mental clarity.
But the film softens the bouts of cruelty with
an abiding sense of humane, if absurdist, comedy, smoothing out the tonal shifts that may have you gasping in horror one minute and laughing the next.
The film softens the bouts of cruelty with
an abiding sense of humane, if absurdist, comedy, smoothing out the tonal shifts that may have you gasping in horror one minute and laughing the next.
Along the way, the 5,500 - pound coupe instilled
an abiding sense of serenity, its plus - sized length (more than 20 feet) and girth shrinking away as I grew comfortable at its controls.
Koloa vacation rentals offer
an abiding sense of history, along with uncommon luxury.
A deep and
abiding sense of the sublime is tantamount in Untitled # 1.
Trained as an architect under Mies van der Rohe, Norman Bluhm created paintings with
an abiding sense of structure, balance, and compositional technique.
United by an energetic brushstroke and a wry sense of humor, the paintings convey what Alan Pocaro, writing his catalogue essay, calls «honesty, integrity, and
an abiding sense of the personal made universal.»
The young activists commit their lives to a higher cause and thereby acquire not just an authentic identity but
an abiding sense of connectedness between the inner landscape and that of the natural world they seek to protect.
It was established to annually recognize a team member who has consistently demonstrated fairness, courtesy, dignity, honesty, integrity and
an abiding sense of responsibility to comply with the standards and rules of professionalism in the collaborative practice.
As a result of God's demonstrated love in my own life, I have
an abiding sense of hope.