The essay on Wilson, which opens the book (a characteristic gesture by Vidal: his megacollection of essays from 1993, "United States," likewise began with a homage to Wilson), introduces us at once to the first and most insistent of his bugbears, which is the horribleness of Abraham Lincoln.
He imparts as much gravity and heart as any actor could to Mr. Cook's folksy homilies, of which the most insistent is embodied in the motto "see it, feel it, trust it" that Luke scrawls on his golf balls as "s.f.t".
Distant pads provide a bedrock for a colorful latticework of more insistent synthesizers, which lend themselves quite nicely to imagining the grandeur and majesty of the cosmos, extending outward infinitely in every direction, occasional orbs of light, heat, and gravity the only landmarks in the nothingness [ADD SEMICOLON OR BREAK INTO TWO SENTENCES].
In his review of "The Last Empire" (July 1), Gore Vidal's latest essay collection, Paul Berman accuses Vidal of "slipping... into what seems to be one or another obsessive mania... the first and most insistent of... which is the horribleness of Abraham Lincoln".
His insistent cry, which suggests a hybrid of Jimmy Scott (who also has a "Little" attached to his name) and Frankie Valli, transmuted teenage heartbreak into high drama.
In Kuznetsov's original draft, this marvellously frank and insistent book, which tells the story of a ravine near Kiev that was the site of the largest single massacre of the Holocaust, was as critical of the Soviets as it was of the Nazis.
That job goes to the insistent music, which forces a stereotypical eeriness, as in the scores of fifties sci-fi B-movies, but without the hysterical exaggeration — without the fun.
For many Japanese nationalists, visits to the shrine appear have become a way of standing up to what they see as the increasingly insistent demands of China, which has usurped their country as the dominant power in Asia.
Most days, the struggle in Tahrir Square is between various protesters and the insistent glut of cars, which weave angrily around the crowds.
This ganging up of the vote behind Mr Hughes, together with the high and insistent level of vilification which infected the campaign, make the case for Bermondsey as being a unique, one-off byelection.
Some of the cultivars and hybrids are more insistent than others, which is why some will rebloom while others do not, even under identical growing conditions.
