Sentence examples for insistent return from inspiring English sources

To tell it straight is to tell of a person's repeated, futile reaching for the absent loved one, the insistent return to the original moment of loss.

Forster gives as an example of rhythm Proust's constant but never systematic or insistent return to the theme of the "little phrase," a melody that the fictional composer Vinteuil serves up in various forms and that the characters hear at strategic moments.

This insistent return to questions of influence has to do with the fact that Symonds held conflicting views about the causes of same-sex desire.

It is a sort of rondo, I realized, organized around three insistent returns of that opening tattoo.

In the council, Enos cast a tie-breaking vote in favor of continuing, but in a meeting with his captains after the council, announced that because they were insistent on returning, he was acceding to their decision, and would return.

Nobody was more insistent on returning to the sources, which for him meant the New Testament.

This cat is very insistent on returning the love.

Though this warm winter day in Honduras felt peaceful, my hosts were insistent on returning before dark.

Upon his arrival in Montreal, he learned that many men had promised to stay only until April 15, and most of these were insistent on returning home.

No wonder Mohammed's dream grows ever more insistent: he must return to the Moroccan village he left four decades earlier; he will use his pension to build the biggest house in the village; and all his children and grandchildren will come to be with him.So much for the dream.

That didn't last long: Mr. Reich's insistent rhythms quickly returned, restoring the work to its contemporary moorings.