Sentence examples for insistent search from inspiring English sources

The insistent search for the dark side of plays and musicals is by now a tiresome directorial conceit.

Religion means a way of life, whereas spirituality has to do with the essential, insistent search that man has to fill that void".

As in other of Mr. Gehr's films, this insistent cinematic searching expresses an elegiac sense of the passing of time.

An insistent chordal vamp, searching for some kind of harmony, trying to make sense of it all.

This grim anniversary falls in Halloween week, when spirits of the departed seem so notoriously restive, and those searching for the insistent phantoms of Penn Station can find them deep in the bustling, claustrophobic warren that has been carved out of the old terminal's subterranean remains.

Tom Franks's reluctance to talk about his wartime service, his daughter's insistent questioning of him, and her determined search for evidence of his activities structure her discursive memoir.

The boy was insistent that he was correct however, and a quick Google search proved Johnson's 'Lit Hum' degree was no match for this child's knowledge of Roman history.

But he was so insistent, I plugged "cheetah cub" and "honey badger" into a search engine and what did I find?

But where no properly limited search warrant has been issued, this Court has been scrupulously insistent on confining very narrowly the scope of search and seizure.

It's more troubled and elegiac than Pynchon's novel even, with less daffy musical interludes, more insistent harking-back to a lost Californian utopia – expressed through Doc's search for his vanished "old lady" Shasta Fay Hepworth.

Built on blocky, insistent chords, it churns with a humming-for-weeks chorus and lyrics about "searching for signs of life" in a house abandoned by a lover.