The film, for all its adoration of unpolluted nature, has an insistent death-loving creepiness, so it's a relief when Noah's plan is furiously opposed by his wife and children.
Grim kitchen workers angrily sound a clattering, insistent prelude to a death rattle by shaking their crates of silverware as they stride to the front of the stage and back.
The insistent theme of the "death wish" (another example of Freud's influence), however, indicates too radical a pessimism for tragedy; even the character of Edmund Tyrone, O'Neill's own counterpart, confesses that he has always been a little in love with death, and in another late play, The Iceman Cometh (1939), the death wish is more strongly expressed.
I have seldom read a novel in which the link between sex and death is so insistent.
But the insistent denials of any significant death toll by local officials and the contradictory reports in some Chinese news media that hundreds have indeed died had become a study of creeping disorder in the state-run press.
The most notorious episode of his Roman sojourn was connected to Pope Urban VIII's desire to take advantage of his astrological expertise in order to counter the ever more insistent predictions of his imminent death, based on the inauspicious disposition of the stars.
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Black lives matter, in short, because black people continue to exemplify what it means to be human in the face of inhumanity and dehumanization, of living a human life against the constraints of "racialization," in the face of insistent institutional violence and (social) death.
1,000 Deaths has a relentless, insistent anti-groove; a sort of industrial chug.
Black-robed Death is as frank and insistent as a terrified girl being hustled to the stake.
Friends and family members were insistent that Nisman had not seemed depressed before his death, and that he had reported receiving death threats in the preceding days.
