He would tell SueAnn he wanted to Google it, and she would insist on Googling it for him herself, because in addition to watching the video, she had also watched the aftermath — the crazy-seeming insistence that her son did not exist, including people who seemed to be mocking the letter.
By the time we said our goodbyes this year, one thing had become abundantly clear: I'd morphed into my grandfather, who used to drive all the grandkids crazy with his insistence on taking photos of us that we'd never look at and recalling stories about us we couldn't remember.
What drove American officials crazy about Blix was his insistence on giving Saddam Hussein points for form -- for playing along with the inspections process even while frustrating its object.
The clangorous insistence of it drives you crazy.
You can hear the same ambivalence in Jay-Z's willingness to sacrifice complex rhymes for a good beat, in his insistence that "without rap I was crazy straight," and in his half-serious threats of retirement: "Back to Shawn Carter the hustler, Jay-Z is dead".
It seems crazy now, but once upon a time, Apple's adoption of H.264 and insistence on HTML5-based video players was controversial — especially since most video before the iPad was encoded in VP6 to play through Adobe's proprietary Flash player.
The Crazy Horse Memorial is far larger than Mt. Rushmore, yet at the insistence of the sculptor, no government money has been spent on it.
More often, the White House press shop has been forced to use weasel-y language to defend crazy claims made by Trump himself, as staffers including Sanders did in the wake of Trump's insistence that Barack Obama tapped his phones.
When Masina introduced Quinn to her husband, the actor was disconcerted by Fellini's insistence that the director had found his Zampanò, later remembering: "I thought he was a little bit crazy, and I told him I wasn't interested in the picture, but he kept hounding me for days".
