They seemed to have no interest in selling, wanting to talk only about what they made, bars invariably (anything else — a filled confection like a truffle, for instance — was frivolous), in the compulsive, insistent way that upmarket vintners go on about their wines.
With her chipmunk cheeks, graceful smile and the somewhat insistent way she declares she is 93 pounds -- not a bit less -- Peng Guimei looks about as threatening as a bowl of day-old rice.
It was speaking to me in the most insistent way.
Thanks to the euro crisis, summits happen almost as often as Republican presidential debates, giving Mrs Merkel frequent opportunities to press Germany's case, in her quietly insistent way.
The Japanese, in their politely insistent way, make all sorts of demands on Bob, and he's buried deep within himself, lost in some frozen realm of sadness and disgust, too jet-lagged and defeated even to get angry.
To those who wonder "Is this all there is?" or "Is this the best we can do?", Shelley cries "No!" He reminds us, in the same insistent way he reminded all his lovers and friends, of how much we can surely accomplish once our demons have been conquered - and how extraordinary we can be.
"Mommy, Mommy, Mommy," he kept saying in that insistent way little kids sometimes do.
As pressures for new revenues become more and more insistent, ways and means of meeting them present to a state not only the baffling task of tapping fresh sources of revenue but of doing so with due regard to a state's existing taxing system.
In a genre that overwhelmingly favors male performers, she's a bright star with an insistent voice, on her way to a compelling solo career.
