Sentence examples for insistent quality from inspiring English sources

At their best, her stories have the vibrancy, the buzzing resonance and the oddly insistent quality of dreams.

Here, the Antipodean takeover of Twickenham produced a classic conclusion to the eighth World Cup, thanks to the insistent quality of New Zealand's attach and a raging, rousing Australian comeback during the second half that ought to merit some kind of asterisk in the history books.

"Don't you think this theme has an insistent quality?" Ravel asked his friend Gustave Samazeuilh as he fingered the initial melody on the piano, "I'm going to try and repeat it a number of times without any development, gradually increasing the orchestra as best I can" (2 ).

This insistent watchable quality — perhaps the most critical prerequisite of stardom, and certainly more essential to its brightness than either acting talent or even physical beauty — was there from the beginning.

"We make financial reports mandatory," he pointed out, so why be any less insistent about the quality of worship?

Though the specific influences (Mr. Glass's cycling figuration, Debussy's shimmering harmonies) soon fade away, the work retains a rhythmically insistent, almost motoric quality to the very end.

Dr John Wormersley from the CCG said: "We have to make efficiency changes, but we are insistent that the quality of the services remains the same.

I feel it keeps me in touch with my Jewish roots, period". Merritt-Poree is just as insistent about the quality of the kosher food she cooks and eats.

She infuses lyricism into an insistent and determined movement quality.

The writers, who originally titled the show Baggy Trousers and set it in the 1980s of their own teenage years, and the lead actors are insistent on maintaining a quality threshold.

I think it's because these three songs are less bellicose, less boastful, and more insistent that the defining qualities of America are national beauty and brotherhood, liberty and freedom, and equality of access for all, rather than of bellicosity and boastfulness about being uniquely blessed and favored by God.