"If I had another child, what would our living circumstances be like?" Ms. Wang's reasoning underscores an argument voiced with growing insistency by demographers who want China to abandon its one-child restrictions: like the couple in Yicheng, they argue, most Chinese want only one child anyway.
The camera's medium close-ups rub their faces onto the screen with an insistency that makes you feel as overly familiar with them as they do with each other.
The red specks that punctuate this rhythmical bird ballet, and the round eyes that seem to glare at you with strange insistency, convey a weird sense of unspoken threat.
The theater of the absurd has had its great exponents, notably Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter; Merce Cunningham's choreography shared much with it, but Mr. Naharin's work manifests an auteurist insistency on drawing attention to its own intense artfulness and on making his dancers look like cogs in his surreal machine.
Like the impatient guest, the reader may want to escape, but is held by the almost deranged insistency of the Mariner's tone.
Dark space is frequently perceived as the unnerving harbinger of the unseen, as Anthony Vidler discusses: Space is assumed to hide, in its darkest recesses and forgotten margins, all the objects of fear and phobia that have returned with such insistency to haunt the imaginations of those who have tried to stake out spaces to protect their health and happiness.
His son, Denardo Coleman, played drums with hard insistency, even bombast (at bright tempos, his ride-cymbal patterns were rivetlike), but he also kept closely attuned to the flow of improvisation.
Verizon officials have long said those prices are too low, and they have repeated that with increasing insistency since Sept. 11.
"Insistency, persistency and consistency, that's our formula.
