I have noted that persons with bad judgment are most insistent that we do what they think best. From LearnThat.org. [Lionel Abel]
The bluejay's insistent cry. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Schiller: the aesthetic, in other words, is insistent from the beginning. From Wordnik.com. [Introduction: 'The Power is There': Romanticism as Aesthetic Insistence] Reference
No guitars to hold it together, no massive keyboard riffs, just these thin insistent pulses with flurries of sound on the sides. From Wordnik.com. [A Question Of Blown Minds] Reference
The BBC's response to this is that their requests to check the footage were not 'insistent' enough. From Wordnik.com. [The BBC Must Take Full Responsibility] Reference
She could be insistent and logical at the same time. From Wordnik.com. [The Recall Year] Reference
Eisner, never one to lose an argument, was insistent. From Wordnik.com. [THE MAGIC IS GONE] Reference
Wei wanted to go, but his wife was insistent on staying. From Wordnik.com. [The Greenery of Spring Time] Reference
The machines sounded insistent and important ... yet calm. From Wordnik.com. [Feeeeeeeeuck!] Reference
It's an angry, blunt-spoken American voice, loud and insistent. From Wordnik.com. [The No Bull Campaign] Reference
The secretary of State was cordial, but forceful and insistent. From Wordnik.com. [Refusing to Lose] Reference
Patients sometimes compare the pain to a toothache, insistent and deep. From Wordnik.com. [Arthritis: What It Is, Why You Get It, And How To Stop The Pain] Reference
And we may yet rue the day we surrendered to the insistent urge to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in Electronica] Reference
The idea of finding water had latched onto my brain like an insistent fly. From Wordnik.com. [Seriphyn Knight Chronicles: Scene 1-01] Reference
Would they meet his insistent, disturbing challenge to their better selves?. From Wordnik.com. [Rfk's Last Campaign] Reference
The older one, who speaks with a smoker's rasp, is insistent and domineering. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton And The Intern] Reference
If Reagan chafed sometimes under his wife's insistent ways, he didn't let on. From Wordnik.com. [Capitol Letter: A Storybook Life] Reference
There is no longer any real break from the insistent demands of American life. From Wordnik.com. [After Midnight] Reference
Everyone evaded the nub of the problem, which is the insistent rise of spending. From Wordnik.com. [Health Care: The 'Con' That Failed] Reference
Ted's appetite had grown more insistent, his expectations increasingly disturbing. From Wordnik.com. [Reflections on Chrome] Reference
Meaning, of course, the extent to which I had to listen to his insistent nonsense. From Wordnik.com. [A Bite-Sized Piece] Reference
The long and insistent sound jumps and lurks from seven o'clock to midnight every night. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyeur] Reference
She seemed puzzled and a bit frustrated that she had to be so insistent on her own demise. From Wordnik.com. [The Case for Killing Granny] Reference
(Another reason is that Rumsfeld's insistent interventions brought chaos to Army planning.). From Wordnik.com. [McNamara, Rumsfeld and the Fog of War] Reference
Now in a lull he hears the insistent buzzing and jumps up, spilling the packet of pretzels. From Wordnik.com. [Lover of Beautiful but Unstable Women] Reference
A bird calls from a nearby tree, its voice nasal and insistent, like a seagull with hiccups. From Wordnik.com. [Birding In Central Park] Reference
Those former Communist bosses who complied with the court's demands were especially insistent. From Wordnik.com. [Nothing Personal] Reference
Her urgency to leave seemed less insistent than the desire to see if Victor would arrive again. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part II] Reference
Yet we readers remember the student as largely miserable in the face of David's insistent ardor. From Wordnik.com. [African Anger] Reference
He doesn't remember being so insistent at their ages — eleven and nine — although maybe he was. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Back] Reference
It electrified me as a teenager, but now comes across as just a boy's book: loud, insistent and hollow. From Wordnik.com. [Books: Eric Kraft] Reference
Their call to action was insistent yet reasonably expressed; determined yet pursued with calm conviction. From Wordnik.com. [Help From People Of Faith] Reference
"She was quite insistent that color not be used as a discriminator of people," says one Los Alamos official. From Wordnik.com. [The Chinese Puzzle] Reference
So perhaps the pattern is set, a pattern of insistent denial of interest — until it turns out that, hey, he is interested. From Wordnik.com. [Why Dick Cheney Should Run in 2012] Reference
I went to the hospital, and stood behind more police lines waiting for information and answering the insistent beep of my cell phone. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Diana Died] Reference
One insistent question at the start of a new decade involves the lingering effects of the old: What scars will the Great Recession leave?. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Recession’s Aftermath] Reference
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