Its repetitive, insistent nature struck a deep chord within me.
However, perhaps owing to his insistent nature, he often irritated his colleagues.
This happened especially in an energized dismantling of Harold Arlen's "Get Happy," in which he used the insistent, hammering nature of the theme to his advantage and improvised a long, tense, behind-the-beat solo that was almost all windup before a brief, heavily chorded detonation.
The book is a unique fictional blending of the traditions of Puritan spiritual autobiography with an insistent scrutiny of the nature of men and women as social creatures, and it reveals an extraordinary ability to invent a sustaining modern myth.
The first of these, Robinson Crusoe (1719), an immediate success at home and on the Continent, is a unique fictional blending of the traditions of Puritan spiritual autobiography with an insistent scrutiny of the nature of man as social creature and an extraordinary ability to invent a sustaining modern myth.
The Independence Party, at about 10 percent in many polls, has ridden a tide of disillusionment with the intrusive nature of the bloc's insistent flow of "directives" about everyday aspects of life — the "sclerotic," "one-size-fits-all" decision-making that Mr. Cameron blamed for reducing popular support for remaining in Europe to a "wafer-thin" margin.
But despite all the uncertainty about the nature of Bland's marijuana use, officials were insistent that the presence of marijuana in her system was somehow significant.
Scalic rivulets and a metallic sheen offset the generally static, grey nature of his collage, making the eventual emergence of an insistent wooden knocking all the more ominous in its effect.
Young children are not, after all, as insistent as their elders that a story adhere to the rules of logic or the nature of reality.
The nature of philosophy was always a vexed philosophic question, but now it was particularly insistent.
