The phrase "insistent desire" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to a strong and persistent longing or craving for something. Example: Despite his busy schedule, John could not ignore his insistent desire to travel the world and explore different cultures.
Colonel Lindbergh, who was broken-hearted at the indignity his plane suffered when stowed away and forced to cross the Atlantic as freight, is insistent in his desire to fly his own machine to New York.
In this production, two widows who play cards with Mick are so vibrant, warm and insistent in their desires that in their 10 minutes onstage they very nearly steal the show from the brothers.
Yes because his insistent cameos reflect a desire that the norms of cinematic stardom would have frustrated, and because he compensated by making his appearance and performance his advertising trademark.
Something that beats beneath everything else; something troubling, insistent, itchy and physical: pain and desire mixed.
The book, in fact, takes as its overt theme what has been the ever more insistent subtext of Carson's prior writing -- the "dilemma of desire" and the ways in which intellectual discernment (a familiarity, say, with "the passive periphrastic" tenses in Latin) and erotic taste often pull in opposite directions.
Anthony Lane wrote that Assayas "realizes (and Ramírez's unflagging performance confirms) that Carlos could compel attention, desire, and awe, but his capacity to repel was no less insistent, and by the end of the film he is running out of friends".
However, it's a book that rightly has wider ambitions, because these insistent, lengthy attempts to become pregnant raise more elemental questions about what it means to desire a child.
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.
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn 1 hour 32 minutes; not rated Nicolas Winding Refn's desire to be taken seriously as a filmmaker would be touching if it weren't so insistent.
The delicate introduction gave way to a more insistent two-chord pattern, and Mr. Banhart's voice got louder and plainer in the refrain, an unusual lyric of desire: "Oh, Michigan, Michigan state, how I'd love to live in you".
