insistently

Examples of insistent

insistent
And then when she sees that the request is not especially insistent, she drops the costumes.
My desire to go home at the end of the day involves no insistent drawing of my attention to the pleasures of the hearth.
In this light, then, there should be no wonder why the motherly administrative order provoked such insistent and articulate opposition.
The community was overwhelmingly male and insistent on remaining aloof from the host society.
The continuity of musical time as experienced in the previous pieces, was interrupted by the dogs' insistent, uninvited interjections.
After all, the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection.
It is a moving work: the plangency of the keening is unbearable, the repetition is as insistent as the tolling of the death-knell.
This was a dilemma that they were insistent on resolving by rejecting the ' welfare ' label, although with mixed success.
What they have going for them is an insistent rhythm.
A second present that is the insistent present of the landscape transformed.
This insistent binary opposition is also what ties the subplot into the main one.
The proposal to depart from tonic, though more insistent this time, ends in interruption.
The concern seems less that of the predations of animals than an insistent and paranoid concern at the incursions of the poor.
Moods for saxophone and piano is in three movements: the first two are very slow, and are both characterized by insistent sighing motifs.
In contemporary biography, the emphasis has become ever greater, as sexuality and gender issues have become more complicated and insistent.
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