It kept coming back to him, one persistent thought.

Bargaining: This stage may involve persistent thoughts about what could have been done to prevent the loss.

Bargaining: This stage of grief may be marked by persistent thoughts about what "could have been done" to prevent the death or loss.

He tried to block the persistent thought.

"A persistent thought in the fragment's surviving memory."

Handy gasped, evidently coached by persistent if meaningless (to him) thoughts.

Marcovich features the similarities of the two women: green eyes and persistent thoughts about their missing fathers.

A chance encounter at court, for such was his nature, had left him with persistent thoughts of her younger sister.

Like persistent thoughts recurring in the mind, repeated symbols float in the artificial space.

Despite her success, she resorts to promiscuity and has persistent thoughts of suicide.