Melody gets insistent enough that Miss Abbot sends her to the principal, who suspends her for several days.
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.
Two years later, he made his high-school team — and quickly decided that after-school practices and position-specific training were not enough to fill his insistent appetite for improvement.
In Mr. Sharon's visit here, his entourage was insistent that the Palestinians had not done enough to warrant the move toward the "cooling period".
Accordion replaced qanun, guitar supplemented oud, and the santouri was sometimes traded for the insistent plink of a baglamas, a lute small enough to tuck into a coat sleeve or smuggle into a jail cell.
They are evidence not only of this novel's insistent lovability but also that its heroine, Sophie Stanton, has been mixed-up enough to wear the slippers to work.
Confronted with a life whose contours shaped her own, the story was personal enough to elicit pain, and distant enough to unearth an insistent guilt.
His parents do: Back in 1977, they took their insistent 2-year-old to see "Star Wars" 10 times, though he never stayed awake long enough to see the Death Star explode.
I was lucky enough to be able to play a partial round of Battlefield 3 yesterday, but unfortunately DICE and EA were very insistent that no cameras would be allowed inside.
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.
