328 examples of insistence in sentences

One thought there is, in closing, that impresses itself upon me, with ever growing insistence.

This revival is coming, not with shouts and noise, but with the quiet insistence of new ideas, of new factswith the still voice of scientific announcement.

Here he builded a desperate edifice whose foundations were his social talents; and it was with quaint self-abhorrence he often noted how the telling of a smutty jest or the insistence upon a manifestly superfluous glass of wine had purchased from some properly tickled magnate a much desiderated "tip.

Old Johnston had finished the job before the President (Olympia noticed that all Southerners dwelt upon this title with complacent insistence) could reach the field.

The insistence with which this claim has been reiterated and proclaimed abroad by Germans, often with more of patriotism than of good taste, may have led a part of the public to believe it.

She must abdicate her mere crass insistence on commercial supremacy.

It is the insistence on passion, emotion, which makes the treatise On the Sublime stand out above other classical treatises on writing.

This intensity which is characteristic of the poet he contrasts with the amplification of the orators, which strengthens the fabric of an argument by insistence and is especially "appropriate in perorations and digressions, and in all passages written for the style and for display, in writings of historical and scientific nature."

This is the earliest record in England of an insistence on unity of time and place.

"I don't care for those flat things," volunteered Violet Canby, as she departed lockerward at Miss Anderson's stern insistence.

Oh, Bob, what should I ever do without you!" cried Betty, forgetting that a few moments before she had berated him for his insistence.

Then came the great sweep of progressive policies to victory in the elections of 1912; and legislatures everywhere awoke to the universal insistence on the Income Tax.

Miss Annabel's voice broke upon the tense moment with cheerful insistence, and Miss Annabel herself appeared at the turn of the walk, waving a slip of paper.

It was a cheering omen for their start across the Western Ocean, and the invalid Governor found himself a popular man on board, for it was generally understood that but for his insistence upon an immediate trial and sentence, the villain might have played upon some more venal judge and so escaped.

There was something in the cool insistence of the young man, a quiet resolution in his voice as he claimed his Saturday, which aroused his curiosity.

Shall I find him at the Vicarage?" He was gone almost before she could answer, and Avery was left on the seat by the door, staring before her with a wildly throbbing heart, still asking herself with a curious insistence, "What of Piers?

She turned to answer the summons, but ere she reached the hall it was repeated twice, with nervous insistence.

She yielded to his insistence, but with a curious, hurt feeling as of one repulsed.

They arrived at the palace, and the stranger's insistence succeeded in gaining admission to the king.

he repeated in the insistence of wonder.

" They were at the door, Jack in wistful insistence, hungry for their companionship, and the Doge and Mary in common hesitancy for a phrase before parting from him.

The standards of perfection and scales of points laid down by the specialist clubs are usually admirable guides to the uninitiated, but they are often unreasonably arbitrary in their insistence upon certain details of formgenerally in the neighbourhood of the headwhile they leave the qualities of type and character to look after themselves or to be totally ignored.

Incidentally may be noted the one defect in Mr. Plummer's great workits author's almost irritating insistence on pagan origins, nature myths, and heathen survivals.

It is pretty plain that the compilers of the lives had some prerogatives, claims or rights to upholdhence this frequent insistence on the evil of resisting the Saint and presumably his successors.

And these emotions are to an incredible extent crushed out by the modern insistence on the painful side of life only.

328 examples of  insistence  in sentences