How To Use Insistent In A Sentence

Although we always want things, childhood is the time when we are most insistent.
But the Swedish startup has been particularly insistent on coming to the U.S. market with a freemium, not paid-only, model. told the U. K.'s Telegraph last week that the company is paying the label royalties per user in only two countries, the U.K. and Spain. VentureBeat
Stalin was insistent that the war would be won and lost in the machine shops.
There was an insistent knock on my door.
I can't begin to describe the horrors being perpetrated by the DJ's, their insistent attempts to incite a conga line, or the, um, "dancing" of the patrons who -- despite clearly being the offspring and younger relatives that the publisher folks had passed on their tickets to -- managed to make your dad's elbow-jiggle and hip-shoogle look like The Moves Of The Groove. Archive 2006-10-01

These were the Marshall Plan days, which sadly ended in the '70s, and the US became even more kind of insistent on pushing these wrong policies on the developing countries and some other countries. Democracy Now!
Toure sounds outrageously laid-back, but the insistent rhythmic pulse in his music is hypnotic and irresistible.
The undeniable utility of the canoe is attenuated by its insistent lack of comfort. Times, Sunday Times
Every third dog causes me to hyperventilate and produce insistent grunting sounds.
Why are you so insistent that we leave tonight?
Very insistent on these things. Christianity Today
I watch with thinly veiled amusement as he insistently taps her on the shoulder.
Given that there was no question of drunk driving, we were fairly insistent on being told what we were being pulled over for.
The bell rang again insistently.
No government has been as insistent on this point as that of Slovakia. Times, Sunday Times
The room was very still; its ordered comfort, the measured ticking of the carriage clock on the mantelshelf, the insistent thudding of the sea, all heightened the sense of outrage, the crudity of destruction and hate. She Closed Her Eyes
Plus, there was an insistent chemical, cheesy smell. Times, Sunday Times
The hottest Thai export since their famed curries, he will be insistent on proving that he is no one-year fluke, that he is as nerveless as he is graceful.
Abbey Road The London Souls' self-titled debut album builds on roaring chords and flashy solos on guitar, insistent drumming and straight-ahead vocals. New Power Trio Muscles Through
For a ‘tale, taken from… facts,’ Castle Rackrent's fabling and didacticism are remarkably insistent and cohesive.
He's quite insistent about what he wants. The Broken God
Both these artists take on the vastness of the world, undaunted, through quiet, insistent craft.
They are also having great fun, absorbed in what they are doing, breaking off only to fire insistent questions at their teacher.
Squeezing her eyes tight she tried to block out Reed's cold, insistent taunts and the jeering catcalls that seemed to get louder with each passing moment.
Stalin was insistent that the war would be won and lost in the machine shops.
At the 1987 election he was cocooned at Labour headquarters, surrounded by television screens, satellite aerials and endlessly insistent telephones.
Mournful, quietly ecstatic ballads alternate with more riff based, rhythmically insistent workouts.
A neighbor at that time became the one who insistently and sleeplessly watched you.
But I wasn't surprised that the insistent commercial jingles of her childhood remained embedded in her brain.
Tom Morello's insistent riffs and scorching solos were supported squarely by the rhythm section.
That said, I cannot begin to assess the damage to British music that will ensue from the coming year's purblind promotion of a composer who failed so insistently to observe the rules of his craft.
But there were many responses all over and we all know that life is stronger and more insistent than its precepts.
At the core of the controversy were insistent African demands for greater participation in government and European fears of losing political control.
The dawn chorus is getting louder and more insistent. Times, Sunday Times
It was pouring down while they did The Box, driving, insistent, intense rain, just like the song.
Imagine the muffled sound of a banjo being clunked, insistently and arhythmical, through the paper-thin walls of a tract home, of a song being played so slowly that any melody was indecipherable.
Mournful, quietly ecstatic ballads alternate with more riff based, rhythmically insistent workouts.
No guitars to hold it together, no massive keyboard riffs, just these thin insistent pulses with flurries of sound on the sides. A Question Of Blown Minds
Insistent, urging everything before it -- the toil of strenuous study, the fret of little trouble, and the dreams of dawning love -- the call stirs on. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 4, March, 1896
She was insistent that his problem was weakness of character. Seminary Boy
Some may be insistent on it in their fiction (as some may insist on the complete exclusion of alethic quirks,) but I challenge any assertion that it has ever been, or ever should be, standard practice in narrative. Modality and Hamlet
One of the pleasures of this novel is Cunningham's description of these intoxicating homes, from the "insistent glittery buzz" of a Manhattan party to a rambling mansion on the coast, "all fieldstone and gables, girded on three of its four sides by verandas; contrived, somehow, with a sense of absolute authenticity. Michael Cunningham's "By Nightfall," reviewed by Ron Charles
The insistent questioners of mainstream practice will not go away and will not be silenced.
Quality policy: Creating from fine details , Winning top - grade from management, Gaining acceptance from insistent pursuance.
She was like a camellia that has opened its dew-spattered petals slowly to an insistent sun. FLOATING CITY
Never anything remotely close to condescending or evil, The Reader nevertheless suffers chiefly from a distasteful thematic overemphasis, though not far behind is the film's rather insistent self-flattery. Review Catch-Up: Doubt, Slumdog Millionaire, Defiance, The Wrestler, The Reader
Rena turns to Greg, demanding him to be silent with her insistent, steady glare.
They are intentionally, indeed overinsistently, scabrous; and they are conscientiously repetitious in their linear, timeless design.
No government has been as insistent on this point as that of Slovakia. Times, Sunday Times
Two other monitors off to one side emit changing flat colours from their screens, and a dull but insistent techno-type soundtrack.
insistent" that the products be manufactured by Standard Candy according to the new formula, and agreed to take the risk of negative outcomes, says the suit. FoodNavigator-USA RSS
Ken is also looking forward to the upcoming league and championship campaigns, and is insistent that we can do well in both.
I had made the tactical error of drinking two cans of Diet Coke as I had waited and Nature and all its insistent whinings was calling me.
From one side you hear the solemn notes of the fanfarade from Libuša; a little farther away a very cheery brass band is stirring its audience with a rattling march -- impossible to keep your feet still; then while the brass band pauses for breath and beer the insistent cadence of a dreamy valse floats up to meet you. From a Terrace in Prague
Sometimes Hofmann seems to nudge Roth in a direction in which Roth is not actually going: the pressure of a man's fingers on a girl's arm is "insistent" when in the original it is merely soft. Emperor of Nostalgia
the bluejay's insistent cry
Literate lyrics, an insistent strum, and an endearingly adenoidal yelp combine for a thoroughly enjoyable song.
At length the little lad grabs her sleeve and becomes insistent, and she is only just in time with the sick bag.
Bunched tightly together by older men in animal skins and carrying spears, they perform a ceremonial dance to insistent drumming.
I was quite insistent on this. The Sun
The excited squeals of hungry piglets and the bleats of insistent lambs seem better designed for pestering reluctant mothers than for conveying a simple message of need.
Elizabeth Gaskell is insistent about the contemporaneousness of her 1854 narrative.
It is a calling as insistent as any religious vocation. Times, Sunday Times
Like the other work in this issue, Leong's vision arrests and disturbs, creating unsettling moments that insistently summon critical imagination.
She didn't want to go but her brother was insistent.
While the Israeli and Palestinian territories are ever more disconnected from one another - whether walls of concrete, walls of hate, walls of psychosis incubated in the vacant lots of empty childhoods, or even literary festivals celebrating Israeli and Palestinian writers at the same time yet completely without acknowledgment of the other - we remain insistent on our island-like existence, instead of accepting we are each promontories and peninsulas. Qanta Ahmed, MD: The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play
I shall write insistent letters to comedy networks telling them to put her on television.
An insistent call pulled me toward a brushy area, and in the fading light, I just barely saw a bird fly up into a small tree.
One was whipped deftly on to his plate, and as he took up his knife and fork to carve it, a great scuffling sounded without, angry voices being raised in expostulation, and, above all, a breathless, insistent appeal for Mr. Carr or Sir Miles. The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
So great is the concern for discipline that some parents will even be insistent that their child receives harsh, practically militaristic, discipline.
These two paintings are almost nothing, but there's something about their quiet presence, which is insistent and compelling.
Agitation: Of the above grievances we not hesitate to complain, and to complain loudly and insistently.
The mechanic was insistent that repairing the car was hopeless.
The Americans remained insistent that their request be heeded. Times, Sunday Times
In one quick twist, he'd jumped up in the bed and began tickling her, his longer, stronger fingers wickedly insistent. JUST BETWEEN US
Then the first stone crashed short against the curtain wall below the brattice, and rebounded without more damage than a few flying chips of masonry, and the siege engines were rolled out to the edge of cover, and began to batter insistently at the defences. A River So Long
He is quite insistent in his amorous advances despite the patent lack of response.
Perhaps readers may think I am too insistent about the specificity -- what scholars call the "historicity" -- of the story of salvation. Brothers Judd Book Reviews
Marx's vision is insistently comprehensive, relating all matters by implication to its political agenda; yet his remarks on aesthetic matters are few and inexplicit, leaving a kind of lacuna in his system.
They were equally insistent that the mayor bore responsibility for the abduction. Times, Sunday Times
The content is glossy, ad-saturated, and insistently non-controversial.
How you knock on a door, says Mr Pullin, is freighted with meaning: there is a world of difference between tentative tapping and insistent hammering.
I was equally insistent that he was ill and in need of loving kindness. Seminary Boy
President Obama politely, but insistently, kibitzed. Dr. Philip Neches: Greece: How Bad Could it Get?
Insistent, often unpolished, and flecked with humour, Shary Boyle's drawings expose private vice and public embarrassment.
The government remained insistent that the war should disrupt civil society as little as possible. The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
Ballet was at its most artistically powerful in the hands of the Russian impresario Sergei Diaghilev, who was insistent that the form was a gesamtkunstwerk, a total artwork, comprising not dancing merely, but music and design as well.
My student was insistent, and a few more pairs of eyes joined him.
The Americans remained insistent that their request be heeded. Times, Sunday Times
It seems that at the heart of the Universe there is a steady, insistent beat.
The chief executive was quite insistent. Times, Sunday Times
Why are you so insistent that we leave tonight?
She is excited too, though, of course, by the sudden flash of orange on the corner of a painting made in Brittany that prefigures his gorgeous, haunted Tahitian palette, or by the insistent presence, on a table, of Gauguin's own beer mug, a sturdy Scandinavian vessel that looks like it holds three pints, and which features in a curious and estranging portrait of his sleeping daughter. Gauguin at Tate Modern: the making of a blockbuster show
She was too preoccupied with remaining insistently silent and had her mind set on the letter she was drafting to John.
I was equally insistent that he was ill and in need of loving kindness. Seminary Boy
Can one fix some exquisite entity, as it were, in amber, immune from changing fashion and unsusceptible to the contamination of the whims of the insistent rich? Michael Henry Adams: The Art of the Steal: Betraying Dr. Albert Barnes and Future Generations
All of the laughs are stifled by the insistent question: what is it you actually think you're laughing at? Times, Sunday Times
There is a subtle but insistent tiger theme running through my house.
Side views are nullified as the cartoon insistently animates its characters from the front.
There's an insistent rough-edged energy to Dude which exerts a physical pull that I find wholly appealing.
In the sensitive areas where attempts at 'exfiltration' are insistent the vigilance is sharp and every day someone, somewhere along the nine hundred miles of the Frontier, dies, a worn coat puckered by a ballet and a hand going out to break the fall of the living body that is dead before it meets the ground; and there is special leave for the man who shot him down. The Striker Portfolio
Back in the changing room, after Cyril Knowles's miskick had led to Chelsea winning a League Cup semi-final, Davies wrote of the sound made by the extractor fan: Its low, insistent hum seemed to reverberate round the walls, getting louder and louder as if trying to drive everyone mad, an Orwell 1984 room, a torture chamber where everyone is face to face with his worst fears. Football's inside-story tellers change perceptions and expose the soul | Rob Bagchi
Described as a "modern Greek tragedy" and "an insistently metaphysical mind-bender" Kafka on the Shore is a compelling story that will stretch the limits of your imagination.
Yet insistent and powerful rhythm supplies the main force of the dance, and the cast seems hellbent committed. Times, Sunday Times
Very insistent on these things. Christianity Today
To have a friend, to look at him, to follow him with your eyes, to admire him in friendship, is to know in a more intense way, already injured, always insistent, and more and more unforgettable, that one of the two of you will inevitably see the other die. Robert D. Stolorow: The Work of Mourning, by Jacques Derrida
The Government needs to be quite insistent that this is possible. Times, Sunday Times
insistent hunger
So far she had paid no money, but the anonymous letter-writer was becoming more threatening, more insistent. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
I came to The Boys as a very hostile audience (being no particular fan of "deconstructive" superhero comics), and to Hack/Slash as a skeptical one (being no particular fan of slasher movies), but they were on my radar insistently enough that I felt I ought to give them a look. Archive 2009-05-03
Nonetheless, though Hooker is a strong proponent of episcopacy, he is equally insistent that church order is not immutable.
The sad fact is that when it is two-pairs-of-socks weather, the body demands shepherd's pie with cheesy mash, sticky toffee pudding and two cups of strong coffee in a loud, insistent voice.
The training techniques employed by instructors running obedience classes are usually very insistent. Superdog! Action plans that work for a happy and well-behaved pet
The insistent calls kept me awake for thirty minutes, forty, an hour.
The flavours are narrow and insistent, unsubtle and repetitive.
Stalin was insistent that the war would be won and lost in the machine shops.
His attentiveness was insistent and intrusive, far more aggressive than the almost archaic courtesies of his brother.
Plus, there was an insistent chemical, cheesy smell. Times, Sunday Times
For the last four months the local municipality has ignored your insistent requests to have it fixed.
The bass is of utmost importance throughout - simple yet insistent.
An insistent blend of noise, rifts and catchy melodies.
Islam, the religion, is uncompromisingly insistent about the preservation of the free and fair market.
Also, he was teasingly interested in the certain small garments on which Dede worked, while she was radiantly happy over them, though at times, when his tender fun was too insistent, she was rosily confused or affectionately resentful. Chapter XXVII
Who are the mysterious prisoners that clamour insistently at the edges of otherwise benign dreams?
Insistent that small-scale peasant properties were the solution to Ireland's economic woes, Mill came to see them as the salve for wounded Irish nationalist sentiments as well.
The insistent beat of amplified music - what my son Joey had once told me was called `heavy metal" - reverberated in my liquid brain. THE DUTCH BLUE ERROR
The dawn chorus is getting louder and more insistent. Times, Sunday Times
It is likely to be even more in the news, for there are quietly insistent stirrings that this silent Pennsylvania field is not receiving the attention that it deserves.
The signs have merely become more insistent over the intervening period. Times, Sunday Times
He was quite insistent that his school was known as a magnate school. Word Court
But he is also insistent that the West and its "fetishistic" headlines have inaccurately projected its antitotalitarian ideal onto a dissident movement that did not represent "a rejection of the Islamic regime altogether," and which, after all, is named for the color of Islam. NYT > Home Page
Yet the drama and the dramatic personality still insistently break through.
Once again, the veteran didn't reply but the insistent question disturbed him.
I was determined to ignore the insistent noise until Carol was roused from the couch to answer her telephone call.
I was equally insistent that he was ill and in need of loving kindness. Seminary Boy
She shook off the insistent nagging of her own questions and determinedly began again.
They were equally insistent that the mayor bore responsibility for the abduction. Times, Sunday Times
'There is the bell,' cried Sophie as a remote but insistent clangour reached them. Is it foolish to question whether the Vice President is part of the Executive Branch?
I was quite insistent on this. The Sun
Local authority chiefs are insistent that the characterisation of councils as wasteful bureaucracies is wrong.
She is scrupulous about disclosing her sources and acknowledging her debts while insistent that her aesthetic judgments are based on what she has looked at hard and pondered.
But neither Syria nor Iran would take such a step willingly, nor would they respond to this favorably as long as they do not see Russia and China resolved and insistent on stropping the two regimes from arming these groups. Raghida Dergham: The Russian-Chinese Partnership Against People(s)
He could feel its palpitations and hear the insistent throb of blood in his veins.
Of particular relevance for present purposes is Eagleton's insistent questioning of what he calls the "new somatics," specifically the current fetishization of the sexualized and unfailingly "well nourished" body. The Voice of Critique: Aesthetic Cognition After Kant,
The album is a classic power-rock album built on roaring chords and flashy solos on guitar, insistent drumming and straight-ahead vocals. New Power Trio Muscles Through
Landsberg "- whose masklike face, hemmed-in torso and superannuating arcs of radiance are more scratched than painted - may sharpen your appreciation of the insistent lines and textures in several drawings and a lithograph of female nudes in the show's opening gallery. NYT > Home Page
With its energetic cast and insistent street score, it still manages to be poignant without becoming bathetic, and violent without being exploitative.
Three singers are matched against tight, insistent rhythm and brass sections, and chiming riffs from four guitarists.
All of the laughs are stifled by the insistent question: what is it you actually think you're laughing at? Times, Sunday Times
She absently stroked the horse's silky forelock but an insistent whinny reminded her of Hope.
He was insistent on a formal written agreement.
A stiff, insistent breeze was blowing as I came along, of excellent, healthy sea air, and there being no coppices, nor buildings nor obstacles of any kind on the very highest points, I made swift and unimpeded progress.
Verum haud recta insistentes via umbras germanae gloriae non veram sectabantur, cognomina sibi nobilitatis imponentes, eaque Anglorum more ostentantes atque iactantes, quum antea is haberi esseque nobilissimus soleret, qui virtute non opibus, qui egregiis a se factis non maiorum suorum clarus erat. An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707)
Recently, he has become insistent that we move in together. Times, Sunday Times
The doctor demurred, but Piercey was insistent.
Related: "A world series of assassins may be the movie's five-word pitch but, burdened with an unnecessarily complicated and aggressively insistent backstory and hence immediately unintelligible, Smokin 'Aces is one busy-busy-busy movie," writes J Hoberman in the Voice. GreenCine Daily: Interview. Joe Carnahan and Jeremy Piven.
His insistent sexual attentions and diminutive pet names become less and less appropriate to the role she is now playing, and her self-image finally comes apart from the one her husband wants to impose on her.
His songs have a hymnal quality, their insistent melodies dirge-like.
It's too insistent and compelling to feel sensuous, but it's damn sexy in its own way all the same.
Recently, he has become insistent that we move in together. Times, Sunday Times
I told him he didn't have to marry me, but he was insistent.
Many of the pieces ride on spare, quietly insistent pulses that owe as much to dub or African grooves as to jazz.
They are intentionally, indeed overinsistently, scabrous; and they are conscientiously repetitious in their linear, timeless design.
They are also having great fun, absorbed in what they are doing, breaking off only to fire insistent questions at their teacher.
The voice emanating from behind the dashboard was insistent.
The insistent organizing of veterans also provided the impetus for systematic psychiatric research. Trauma and Recovery
Life at the ranch house starts early with the insistent chatter of birds and the scent of freshly ground Kenyan coffee.
In spite of the rain he was insistent on going out.
Very insistent on these things. Christianity Today
The insistent lineation sifts sentences into phrases and words, so that ‘Bolt,’ ‘Grounds,’ and ‘Chips’ can be read as either nouns or verbs.
No government has been as insistent on this point as that of Slovakia. Times, Sunday Times
The self's figuration as a trajectory that collapses or can't move ahead finds its formal parallel in Jarnot's insistent, incessant use of repetition, anaphora, litany, and incantation.
She was insistent that they should all meet for dinner.
I was, in short, "elected," by an obsession equal to a conviction; and what with her insistently obtruded as a bonus I never was permitted to lose sight of the ghastly prize of skill added to merit. Desert Dust
Nevertheless The word hung between them, insistent, and the smile on the Prime Ministers face had grown stiff. The Edge of Madness
The melodies have the nagging, insistent quality of advertising jingles, impossible to get out of your head once they're in.
The larger goal is to encourage a strategy for thinking broadly about contentious issues so that the church maintains its intellectual and theological integrity and is not simply captivated by insistent or importunate voices.
Yet insistent and powerful rhythm supplies the main force of the dance, and the cast seems hellbent committed. Times, Sunday Times
When the decay reaches the pulp tissue, the blood vessels, and the nerves that serve the tooth, the pain starts - an insistent throbbing.
Miklós Rózsa's score, with its creepy Theramin-style theme, is way too insistent, piling the dramatic effects on so thickly that it becomes distracting.
If that wasn’t bad enough Lucas grew increasingly insistent that the 6 part Star Wars saga we now have is what he envisaged from the beginning. Where Star Wars Went (and keeps going) Wrong | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
The surface of the liquid undulated gently, then more insistently, looking, not just a little, as though it were alive.
Perhaps, though, "rooted" is the wrong word, since his whisper of a voice floats above his guitar and gentle polyrhythmic percussion to create an environment that's captivating, quietly insistent and delicate but not fragile. A Citizen of World Music
If Peter were alive today, would I be so loud and insistent in demanding he step down?
You would appreciate the Court has been very insistent on the importance of the warning.
The voice of these Lamentations is a sixty-something, club-footed scientist named Julius Marantz, an obsessive researcher who suffers from both forbidden knowledge and and insistent conscience. The Lamentations of Julius Marantz by Marc Estrin: Book summary
The government remained insistent that the war should disrupt civil society as little as possible. The British way in Warfare - 1688-2000
If imitation is a general category of artistic activity, repetition is an insistently demonstrative species of imitation.
The hostile Cylon, who remain insistent on pressing the attack against the Colonials, have lost their most important strategic asset as a result. Chaos Or Community | ATTACKERMAN
The soba noodles were all right, but a bit hot and insistent. Times, Sunday Times
The ideal, a thing of the intellect and the sentiment only, cannot so easily bring about its own effectuation; force of circumstance, the will to survive of existing actualities, the insistent past of our own nature are not so easily blown away by the eager shouting of a few high and great words or even by the breath of the thought behind them, however loudly blare the trumpets of the ideal. Archive 2008-12-01
We turned a corner into another long, stifling, shadowy corridor and heard music, faraway and insistent, the percussion first. DOWNTOWN
Making no use of the hi-hat or cymbals, Kathi's drumming is insistent and tribal adding a real primal ebb to each song.
In the chill dawn I awoke to a ravening hunger that was insistent to be noted, and though my eyes would scarce believe there was Donald Roy cocked tailor fashion on the heath arranging most temptingly on a rock scone sandwiches of braxy mutton and a flask of usquebaugh (Highland whiskey). A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45
I actually agree with Genoways that there are too many litmags publishing too much perfunctory work, but that these magazines have proliferated because the demand for postmodernism is so insistent seems to me patently absurd. Writing and Publishing
In this way, neoclassicism's insistent formalism did little to close the gap between style and meaning.
Yes it's true Portland is quite insistent about planning and "livability" and defends its "urban growth boundary" to the hilt -- the law that says certain densities shall not exist outside of an arbitrary line, so as to keep growth and density confined to a smaller area. Portland's Secret: Urban Renewal via Negro Removal
In any case, if you are insistent on hanging an individual label on this disgrace to humanity, Campbell isn't the one you should choose.
The song's titular scream provides the frozen emotional centerpiece for a feverish and insistent dirge, and a rare moment of absolute release amidst an album often marked by a chilling sense of emotional confinement.
But now it turns out that on the other epaulet was perched the principled figure of Taylor Branch, not at all claiming to be a harp-strummer himself but insistently reminding his old friend that there were better angels in politics and humanity whose claims should not be scorned. What Was Bill Thinking?

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