Verb (used without object) : He insists on checking every shipment. ,to insist on the justice of a claim. ,to insist on a point in a discussion. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : He insists that he saw the ghosts. ,I insist that you see this thing through. From Dictionary.com.
Or was he just elected in a landslide (following a previous Congressional landslide) in what is still insistingly being called a "center-right" nation?. From Wordnik.com. [What Kind of Senate Majority? - Swampland - TIME.com] Reference
` ` And you love me now! '' he went on insistingly. From Wordnik.com. [Within the Law] Reference
"Yes, indeed you must; it would suit you -- in your black dress, now," said Celia, insistingly. From Wordnik.com. [Middlemarch] Reference
How we go, was the question among his problems: -- if we are to go! his youthful frame insistingly added. From Wordnik.com. [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference
Her father did not let the occasion slip to speak insistingly as the world opined of Alvan and his baroness. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference
From the time of the French Republic, France has gone along the same road, somewhat vainly and fitfully at first, but during the last half century, powerfully and insistingly. From Wordnik.com. [Our International Outlook] Reference
Phoenix-like it had risen in all its freshness, vigor and beauty and was now, through the voice of its triumphant exponents, insistingly calling to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá, imploring Him to undertake a journey to its shores. From Wordnik.com. [The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh] Reference
For myself, or any artist, in many of the cases there would be a positive loss of time, peculiar artist's pleasure -- for an instructed eye loves to see where the brush has dipped twice in a lustrous colour, has lain insistingly along a favourite outline, dwelt lovingly in a grand shadow; for these. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846] Reference
"Surely you are the man," went on Henchard insistingly, "who arranged to come and see me?. From Wordnik.com. [The Mayor of Casterbridge] Reference
For myself, or any artist, in many of the cases there would be a positive loss of time, peculiar artist's pleasure ” for an instructed eye loves to see where the brush has dipped twice in a lustrous colour, has lain insistingly along a favourite outline, dwelt lovingly in a grand shadow; for these 'too muches' for the everybody's picture are so many helps to the making out the real painter's picture as he had it in his brain. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett]
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