In "News of the World," more consistently than in his last couple of collections, he's able to step out of his element — the three-beat line, the assembly line, the insistent second person — and be surprised.
This was also our first encounter with what we discovered to be a distinct Moscow character: the insistent coat check person.
If this person is insistent on pursuing you and you have no energy at all left should they catch you, you won't be able to protect yourself.
The manic voices of Beckett's narrators — the novels are written in the first person — are so insistent, hypnotic and mordantly funny that you seem to be really hearing them, not reading them.
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.
Expecting his imminent departure, Ms. Cassin and Mr. Wynne tried to fulfill the detainee's most insistent request: to go home looking like a respectable person, not a criminal.
He began to call Ms. Nagy in an insistent fashion, asking many questions about Ghana's economy, this person said.
After four months in the Síyáh-Chál, owing to the insistent demands of the ambassador of Russia, and after the person who tried to kill the Shah confessed and exonerated the Bábí leaders, the authorities released him from prison, but exiled him from Iran.
Although he wasn't well educated, he was insistent for us to go to the best schools, feeling that a complete person was a disciplined, educated person who's up before the chickens.
