Pregnancy was insistent that way.
Her suffering could have been tiresome, in the manner of any insistent virtue, yet here it seemed to make her grander.
In the First Symphony, Price is still finding her way; the harmonic writing sometimes falls back on nineteenth-century clichés, such as portentous diminished-seventh chords and insistent sequences in the Tchaikovsky manner.
The clinical view is that when children are stating gender variance in a manner that is insistent, consistent and persistent, there is a good chance that they are transgender.
Ruth remembered that Jim was funny and musical with her, but also strict when she was young, and was insistent that she learned good table manners and etiquette when speaking to people.
O'Rourke's manner is compelling — and frighteningly insistent.
He added that Addington's manner in meetings was "very insistent and very loud".
In this way, Mulla Sadra, in a manner representative of a number of Muslim thinkers insistent upon the median way of their faith, represents a mean between 'excessive' ratiocination and the unfettered claims of pure experience made by mystics.
The former Labour chancellor of the exchequer retains the manner of the Edinburgh advocate he once was: clear about what he thinks, insistent to a degree, yet a little world-worn and, in the end, phlegmatic.
He was loud and demanding and insistent, but one of his basic needs had not been met: no one had taught him manners.
