Sentence examples for insistent look from inspiring English sources

But the film's director, Marcus Viner, and his editors seem reluctant to let you savor these long views; they're too quick to cut to some other angle, an insistent "Look at this; no, look at this" that's more annoying than helpful.

To walk with determined steps and with a straight and busy glaze is another feint done in order not to be caught by the insistent looks from patients or accompanying persons who want attention.

But, there are so many parents in 2016 quite happy (if not insistent) to look at the world through a 1980s lens.

And now, with the tick-tocking of the nuclear clock growing ever more insistent, reconciliation looks less and less likely.

In mid 1959, while in a funk over this possible error, a very insistent, shady looking man showed up and made me the offer I couldn't refuse.

He is grumpy and charmless, insistent on looking for something profoundly original, while all around him the smoothies and mediocre careerists are publishing and getting on.

Instead, let's focus on the rewarding elements of the second opera in the bel canto-insistent composer's look at 16th-century England and Scotland and its prominent figures.

Consider, for example, the elderly Mary's wish in relation to the Evangelists who persecute her with their insistent visits: "When I look back at them I hope they see contempt".

Change is a favourite theme in his autumn years and it's here that he is at his most insistent: "The way I look at myself, the biggest achievement in my eyes – forget winning trophies or scoring in World Cups – is that I'm still at a top club playing at a really high standard having been almost two different players.

She was particularly insistent that I never looked down when a man was coming my way.

Great as he is, Mr. Bergman's sexual symbolism, like that of the equally great Martha Graham, can look almost desperately insistent.