Sentence examples for insistent sense of from inspiring English sources

They exemplify an insistent sense of American can-do, the instinctive pursuit of art and, in a way, happiness.

But Kohn and Silverstein, lacking Apatow's incisive and insistent sense of visual comedic parsing, ruin the scene with generic and choppy shots and editing, reducing Schumer's gleefully exuberant performance to a plot point.

Jimmy may have been the visible face of the Jimmy-made football entertainment establishment, but even at the height of the Hill Supremacy he was never a time-server or a placeman, just the son of a Balham milkman and a former Fulham inside-forward driven on by nothing more than that friskily insistent sense of vim.

Mr. Lewis said at a news conference today that in the past four months, shifts in political will, the public mood and drug-pricing policies had combined to create a "cautious but insistent sense of hope" in the fight against the disease in Africa.

Try not to feel pressure from the insistent sense of holiday cheer--the songs, lights, decorations and unbridled commerce.

I wouldn't even understand there being a permanent one, but at least I wouldn't be plagued with an insistent, existential sense of waste, making me yearn for a giant metaphorical recycling system, probably from Ikea.

Scott avoids many of the pitfalls some white African memoirists have fallen into: most important, the insistent if subtle sense of white superiority that sometimes lurks just beneath the surface.

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

Hopefully the audience will feel what Smriti and Eric were most insistent on when they briefed us, a sense of epicness, awe, perhaps alarm and that the whole experience is thought-provoking.

Shrewd editing and a probing, insistent score by Peter Golub heighten the film's sense of pulsing urgency.

Indeed, the latter novel is an altogether darker, less comic production than its predecessor: the melancholy melody that threads through many Tyler novels is more pronounced in these pages; a sense of loss and mortality more insistent.