Sentence examples for author's insistence from inspiring English sources

Was it possible that the comma was retained at the author's insistence?

An author's insistence on keeping an immature figure front and center, page after ruminative page, can seem a vexing self-indulgence.

Although "Oil!" is one of Sinclair's better novels, it still suffers from the author's insistence that literature should lead to the solution of social problems.

In his review of Michael F. Brown's book "Who Owns Native Culture?" (Sept . 14, Richard A. Shweder says he sees courage in the author's insistence that we live in a morally complex world.

Still, the author's insistence that his protagonist symbolize every single aspect of postwar Germany — in the manner of Grass's Oskar Matzerath or Fassbinder's Maria Braun — leaves Heinrich even more of a cipher than the allegory requires.

Was the author's insistence that the plot was basically "pages from my diary" sufficient justification for the grossly sentimental predicaments in which the main character finds himself — predicaments that, as one critic for a prestigious newspaper suggested, "seem to define the meeting place between self-flagellation and contempt for the reader"?

But Hanna, at the author's own insistence, reaches no real understanding of what she has done.

Contrary to one author's recent insistence in Time that these riots "did nothing for black America, government did respond (although the quality of their response is a separate matter).

The book is peppered with stories from Kondo's tidiness-obsessed past and present, dominated by the conflict between an earnest desire to help others change their lives through tidying and the author's somber insistence that she would not wish the difficult life of a cleaning consultant on anyone.

The book is peppered with stories from Kondo's tidiness-obsessed past and present, dominated by the conflict between an earnest desire to help others change their lives through tidying and the author's sombre insistence that she would not wish the difficult life of a cleaning consultant on anyone.

Didactic tone and brittle politics aside, what makes "Inventing Niagara" frustrating reading is the author's fashionable insistence that the story of her obsession with the Falls is as interesting as the story of the Falls and what has occurred around them.