Sentence examples for author insisted from inspiring English sources

The story, as the author insisted, was 'clean of the clash of sex'".

The laws, the author insisted, "apply with peculiar energy and propriety to the circumstances of the United States".

A dialogue by Plato, written in the fourth century B.C., refers to her as "beautiful"; a later author insisted that she was "very ugly, being short and swarthy".

In a conversation with Lauren Laverne for The Guardian, the author insisted Twitter is a more democratic way of communicating, even if it does provide a platform for these "characters".

Proust died in 1922, long before the project was complete, impressed by the rendering down while deprecating its occasional floweriness and over-elaboration: had Scott Moncrieff added the word "to" before Swann's Way (the title of Du côté de chez Swann) he would have "saved everything", its author insisted.

As he tries to lure her back, Sam Tandor-JohnscriptndoctorPatrick Marberick Marber, who should arguably know better, wanted her to use the safe word of "red" to repel him but James, who was given unprecedented control of the film as an author, insisted that they stuck to the novel by using "stop" instead.

The show, often abrasive, turns downright irritating when its author insists on overexplaining her objectives.

Many found them embarrassing, but the author insists persuasively that they warrant another look.

The author insists that it is memoir, not history, and he is right.

They create a vague sense of anxious coercion, of asserted significance, of the author insisting on his terms and inventions.

Despite spending half a lifetime denouncing the repressive regime of Enver Hoxha in his work, the 69-year-old author insists he is not a political writer.