Technically, the later novels are more coherent, plots being more fully related to themes, and themes being often expressed through a more insistent use of imagery and symbols (grim symbols, too, such as the fog in Bleak House or the prison in Little Dorrit).
It focuses on the attitudes of people towards drug use, and current trends of treatment verses insistent use of conventional medicines.
The more troubling aspect of Holland's writing is his insistent use of free indirect discourse, taking us inside the shallow imaginary minds of the various unpleasant characters he evokes.
Somewhat less gentle is the anonymous The Modern Hiawatha, a sharp take on Longfellow's insistent use of anaphora, mesodiplosis and other forms of repetition in his famous Song of Hiawatha, and also of the sense of bathos that these devices can often create, in part, at least, because of a tendency to over-explain everything by saying the same thing several times.
Early on, the writer Joan Didion saw the blotting of the horizon and said so: "We had seen, most importantly, the insistent use of Sept. 11 to justify the reconception of America's correct role in the world as one of initiating and waging virtually perpetual war".
Worse, her insistent use of "like" for "as" turns her narrator into a gum-chewing Valley girl ("Like suddenly it thunders," "Like when a ditch-maker takes a mattock").
The book — which, according to Mark Hodkinson, can be plumbed for self-help tips — takes us through Smith's childhood days of playing "Japanese Prison Camp" with his sisters to his insistent use of the eject button when it comes to bandmates — there have been more than fifty people who have been members in the Fall, and countless records.
Richard Adams, an American interior designer based in London, is known for his love of textures, of vivid colours, his insistent use of gold leaf - often on ceilings; for his mirrored doors and walls; for a sensibility that many describe as "baroque-baroque".
The images are unmistakably his, with their strong, close-cropped compositions, powerful diagonals and insistent, ironic use of the "heroic angle" — the positioning of the camera to look up at the actor as if he were a statue posed on a pedestal.
Settling for a seat in the House of Representatives, John Quincy became an eloquent and insistent foe of slavery.
