Sentence examples for in the insistent from inspiring English sources

He relaxed after finishing, soon joining in the insistent clapping for the next dancer.

"I've got to hook my dad up," he says, in the insistent tone that such a thing was long overdue.

But that precision is missing in the insistent yet murky philosophical underpinnings of "Paysage Après la Bataille".

Musicians could be content to take in the insistent, percussive score by Ennio Morricone and Mr. Pontecorvo, which is legendary in its own right.

Although she demonstrated a fondness for excess and magic, her stories remained firmly grounded in the insistent claims of the body — and in the recent history of her native country, Cuba.

In the insistent noise of the streets, in the cackling voice of a d.j. on the radio, in the glare of the summer sun, it was as if Lima were mocking me, ignoring me, thrusting its indifference at me.

(He reluctantly gave in to the insistent urging of Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, and others in Congress).

Both Gardner, and Jonathan Miller in his remarks about his 1966 television film Alice in Wonderland, reject the insistent Freudian interpretations which start with holes and keys.

In order to sidestep the obvious, the song was named Train in Vain after the insistent, percussive rhythm driving the song.

It suggests intimacy denied, motive obscured: as in Mrs Trevel, the insistent and quite possibly crazed parent who stalks a child psychologist in Poliakoff's Sweet Panic.

And then to the inner consciousness of the modern novel we add the extreme self-consciousness of the postmodern one, as in Jacobson, with the insistent mashup of forms and genres and characters.