They don't share the Western insistence, set out in the 1954 Venice Charter on European restoration, on differentiating the old from the new or restored.
There's a delicious streak of sharp-tongued acidity running through much of the dialogue, which is just brutal enough to be believable (though MTV's insistence on bleeping out swearwords remains irritating – just leave them out of the script!).
One of the most galling business practices of the NFL is its insistence on blacking out local television broadcasts of games that aren't sold out.
So why the heavy-handed insistence on stamping out every bit of independent energy?
Then there is Self's insistence on spelling out all of the nasty bits.
When I look back now at that submersion, I'm still gripped with panic: my wedding will never occur, my unborn children will remain so through eternity — tragedies that were wreaked by my vain insistence on striking out alone.
On that occasion, Heart's defensive approach was incredibly successful, with Victory's insistence on playing out at every opportunity causing multiple dangerous turnovers, two of which lead to Heart goals.
When the Allies took over the offensive in the air, Murrow showed at least an equal disregard for his own safety by his insistence on going out on bombing missions.
If there is something distinctly American about DeLillo's variety of failed transcendence, it might just be his insistence on playing out, like an endless film loop of samizdat footage, the rigged contest between hope and reason, salvation and annihilation.
8 P.M. (Logo) PRETTY HURTS Rand Rusher, the registered nurse who administers nonsurgical cosmetic procedures to some of the denizens of Los Angeles, must deal with a country singer who brings her freely urinating, dyed-pink puppy to his office and his business manager's insistence on putting out a comment box to inject a little control over the staff's behavior.
