Sentence examples for he insists so from inspiring English sources

What Mr. Goulian was struggling with was not sexual identity issues, he insists, so much as general identity issues.

My mother never told me, but he insists, so I have to go with it".

One wonders how Holland knows that Tiberius was a "man of duty" whose retreat to the island of Capri should not be seen as an "abdication", and why he insists so firmly that this spoiled rich man "despised himself" for the orgies that he organised while absent from Rome.

His tireless mythologizing of the scene is what made living in his Manchester (whether or not it was truly like "Renaissance Florence," as he insisted) so much fun.

Borges's stories, he insisted, "so completely transcend their motive cause that the biographical facts become, in the deepest and most literal way, irrelevant".

I tried hard to dissuade him from this unbelievably ridiculous idea, but he insisted and insisted, so I just dropped it and said to myself, fine.

Finally, Ben insisted, so she went.

He insists (he did so again this week, while wondering whether to take a ten-year sabbatical) that he does not want Mr Levin's job.

Otherwise, he said, he has a zillion reasons to go ahead -- including, he insists, that doing so would be good for the Democrats.

And, he insists, it is so not a vanity project: "It may make a statement, but it's not being built to make a statement.

"It is undervalued," he insists, and in so far as the currency's weakness is a cause for concern, it is because of the risk that this will feed through to inflation.