insistency

How To Use insistency In A Sentence

• My chest begins to hurt with more insistency, a couple of coughs rippling through me; there's no time for that now though, as my mind cries out in urgency.
• Jack said to her, with the same quiet, husky note of intimacy, insistency, and the reddish light on his face. Kangaroo
• Had I not known the whole chain of events, or had she not seen how much I was pained and disturbed by her teasing insistency, she would never have thought it worthwhile to soothe me with this frankness — even though, since she not infrequently used me to execute commissions that were not only troublesome, but risky, she ought, in my opinion, to have been frank in ANY case. The Gambler
• He dreaded her will, her female will, and her modern female insistency. Lady Chatterley's Lover
• He could not help thinking that his host was regarding the condition of affairs very calmly, until he remembered that the day was Sunday, when no Briton has any call to be disturbed by any but sacred insistency. Springhaven
• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Build Blog » Quotes on Design
• Add to this the urgency with which many Americans demand that we look the other way as thousands of Mexicans cross our borders illegally each day, and the insistency with which they urge Pelosi, Kennedy, and Bush to grant amnesty to those millions of lawbreakers already here, without thought being given to the tens of millions more who will then follow in their footsteps. From On High
• The antic world behind the world—with its dinosaurs and wizards, its talking elephants and two-headed tigers—asserted itself with pushy insistency. In This Way I Was Saved
• But it is becoming apparent that these are all eclipsed by the English game's insistency on burying its head in the sand and claiming it's all okay, really.
• He also remarked, more significantly from an aesthetic point of view, “A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.” Matthew Alderman in Dappled Things