"A lot of wonderful things happened here," he insists, a bit on the defensive as Melanie tries to convince him the odd chair might help.
China seems inclined to tighten its grip and wait out the aging leader, insisting, a bit improbably for a government that is officially atheist, that it has the legal right to designate the Dalai Lama's next reincarnation.
"I insisted a little bit on Antigone," says Binoche of Sophocles's heroine, who propels the tragedy through her insistence on burying the body of her brother Polynices, in defiance of the edict of her uncle Creon, the new king of Thebes.
Yet she has a long-distance runner's physique — 5 feet 8 inches and 117 pounds — that she insists is a bit too heavy at the moment.
By putting himself in his films, and often shooting them as extended documentaries, he can't really object when audiences assume they are one and the same, though he does insist on a bit of wiggle room.
It is clear from Mr. Lih's account that nearly every time Wikipedia has come to a fork in the road where the project could have chosen to impose more restrictions on who could edit what — even insist on a bit of expertise — it has chosen not to.
He calls my restaurant in Ilfracombe "Dillfracombe", because I'm always moaning that the chefs insist on putting a bit of dill or whatever on top of the fish.
In fact, the book - at number two in the New York Times bestseller list - while purporting to be all macho, just adds to the culture of men insisting they're a bit crap.
Robertson's role in the healthcare overhaul — he insists it was a "bit part" — began early last year, just a week after his wedding, when he was still recovering from surgery and hooked to monitors at Georgetown University Hospital.
"I'm off to the side," he insisted, smiling and looking a bit embarrassed.
