She still loved football, but her body had begun sending her insistent messages: enough of this.
In those days, despite the insistent downward trend, there were enough examples of sales growth to be faintly optimistic about a possible reverse.
There is patient trust-building, and an insistent message: It is hard enough to escape poverty's fierce gravitational pull; to add to that the grueling business of raising a baby makes it harder still.
But even on this album's weak tracks, and there are several, he remains a commanding presence, deploying just enough of his insistent croak to tether the song together.
In the second movement of the Third Symphony, a lyrical phrase travels around the orchestra, innocuous enough, but its insistent repetition becomes eerie, especially when the violins pluck over it like spiders.
And so, if for no reason but to cut back on the insistent clanging of the telephone (Enough, ROBERT DE NIRO! Learn how to handle it!), that beloved Boldface feature: Your Questions Answered.
Soon enough, though, an insistent Gloucester had their reward when Freddie Burns chipped over a drop goal from behind a ruck on the 22. Burns may only be in England's second-string Saxons squad but the 22-year-old fly-half is stringing together performances that make a good case for promotion.
What he should be famous for, oddly enough, is his insistent, persistent serving of Houston's Lil Flip.
His style relied on an exaggerated urbanity, chilled-out just enough not to be insistent.
