Sentence examples for insistence on playing from inspiring English sources

Blackpool's insistence on playing a high line was suicidal.

However, the Danes' insistence on playing hardball may backfire.

Such a system, and thus Lawson's individual development, is somewhat confounded by Karl's insistence on playing Lawson and Miller together.

Later in the season he could be heard huffing supportively at Barça's insistence on playing his man on the right.

Because of Dallas's commitment to nurturing and fostering their own young talent – their insistence on playing their kids – it is fitting too that Pareja's nickname is Papi.

9.59am: Over on Comment is free, my colleague Phillip Inman argues that Germany's insistence on playing hardball with Greece threatens the entire European recovery.

Putin might also be hampered by a stubborn insistence on using only the red dots, or by insisting on playing shirtless and on horseback.

His insistence on always playing in an attacking mode meant he fielded a 4-4-2 formation thad had Segio Agüero and Edin Dzeko as the strikers so City were overrun.

Mr. Laxe's insistence on taking play seriously recalls "Homo Ludens" ("playing man"), the seminal 1938 work by the Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, which argued for the central role of creative play in society and culture.

Brenton felt the need to counter Galileo's pessimism about his battle with the authorities with the optimism of his intelligence, clear-sightedness and lust for life (hence Brenton's insistence on the production playing the whole of the last scene, in which Galileo's book is smuggled "across a border to us, in the future").

In part because of their insistence on staging plays as they like, script be damned, Mr. Lin and Mr. Meng are both regularly on the receiving end of critical ire.