Sentence examples for insistent like from inspiring English sources

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She would sit by her empty bowl and call out for them, shrill and insistent, like a small black and white seagull.

Written by Mr. First and sung by Lisa Karrer, it is seductively melodic if a little overly insistent, like Ravel's "Bolero".

Upon a careful read of Peake's work you will confront cutout words that are foreboding and insistent like the piece titled Shut Your Mouth.

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What could be funnier than Tim Russert's refusing to answer insistent, Russert-like questioning about the things he learned from his mother?

Worse, her insistent use of "like" for "as" turns her narrator into a gum-chewing Valley girl ("Like suddenly it thunders," "Like when a ditch-maker takes a mattock").

We're caught up in an insistent beat, like a march.

You hear it in quiet passages, through the beautiful, slow, free-rhythm ballad "Threefold"; and in flowing ones, like his improvisation over the drum clicks in "A Celebration, Circa 1836"; and in insistent ones, like "The Executioner," in which he adopts some of Cecil Taylor's restless attack.

Chua, the John Duff Jr. professor of law at Yale Law School, unfolds an agreeably plausible case with clarity and insistent simplification, like a lawyer pacing before the jury box, hitting the same points (tolerance, diversity, inclusion) for emphasis as she clicks off centuries and civilizations.

The episode hasn't toppled Affleck's awards ascendance, despite insistent headlines like the one that ran on Think Progress: "Why aren't sexual harassment allegations derailing Casey Affleck's Oscar chances?" Why did Parker's scandal sink his entire movie while Affleck's is a footnote?

Her vocals in the song were described as "sliding over the insistent bassline like silk".

The believers in cold dinosaurs, like the believers in cold fusion, will remain frozen in place; some insistent true Dauphin, like the Lindbergh baby, will still wander the American West.

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