Sentence examples for insistence on the method from inspiring English sources

Buscemi initially found the Lee Strasberg Institute "intimidating" (a word he often uses) - both mixing with a more privileged class of people, as well as the school's dogmatic insistence on "the method".

While on a visit to England in 1827, Niépce addressed a memorandum on his invention to the Royal Society, London, but his insistence on keeping the method secret prevented the matter from being investigated.

This is not a rejection of the importance of methodological concerns, but rather an insistence on the limited role of method and the priority of understanding as a dialogic, practical, situated activity.

One of the many good points about last night's address to the Royal Society of Arts by Professor F.T. Blanchard (a distinguished visitor from the University of California) was its insistence on the importance of Defoe and his "method of minuteness for verisimilitude".

Ogburn's insistence on the verification of social theories by quantitative methods helped to shift the emphasis in sociology from social philosophy and reform programs toward the development of a more exact science of social phenomena.

Eric Schnapper, a law professor at the University of Washington, called the administration's insistence on race-neutral methods "a dagger in the heart of what the service academies are doing".

Emphasizing the link between research and practice, Psychology at TC combines an abiding commitment to social justice with an insistence on rigorous scientific method.

It is argued that insistence on the application of the objectivist principles to real information systems may hamper rather than advance insights and progress because of this.

There was a new insistence on the virtue of fidelity and on the sin of betrayal.

The insistence on the "in joke" for fans of "Shameless" is another example of that insensitivity.

Starkey is influenced by John Berger's insistence on the relationship between visual culture and politics.