Sentence examples for insistent use of from inspiring English sources

The more troubling aspect of Holland's writing is his insistent use of free indirect discourse, taking us inside the shallow imaginary minds of the various unpleasant characters he evokes.

Worse, her insistent use of "like" for "as" turns her narrator into a gum-chewing Valley girl ("Like suddenly it thunders," "Like when a ditch-maker takes a mattock").

Mr. Tarantino likes to push hard against accepted norms, as his chortling exploitation of spectacular violence and insistent use of a noxious epithet for blacks has shown in the past.

Technically, the later novels are more coherent, plots being more fully related to themes, and themes being often expressed through a more insistent use of imagery and symbols (grim symbols, too, such as the fog in Bleak House or the prison in Little Dorrit).

The book — which, according to Mark Hodkinson, can be plumbed for self-help tips — takes us through Smith's childhood days of playing "Japanese Prison Camp" with his sisters to his insistent use of the eject button when it comes to bandmates — there have been more than fifty people who have been members in the Fall, and countless records.

Somewhat less gentle is the anonymous The Modern Hiawatha, a sharp take on Longfellow's insistent use of anaphora, mesodiplosis and other forms of repetition in his famous Song of Hiawatha, and also of the sense of bathos that these devices can often create, in part, at least, because of a tendency to over-explain everything by saying the same thing several times.

The images are unmistakably his, with their strong, close-cropped compositions, powerful diagonals and insistent, ironic use of the "heroic angle" — the positioning of the camera to look up at the actor as if he were a statue posed on a pedestal.

29 Female sex workers with a good income may be more insistent on the use of condoms by their clients, whereas sex workers who do not make enough money for their daily needs may be more inclined to give in to the demands of the clients who do not wish to use condoms.

The choreography has its own strange fascination, with Mr. Martins's use of insistent motifs.

TSE was insistent on both the use of the word The and the gap between Waste and Land.

But the qualities that make the nearly 30-minute piece so consistently involving are its insistent drive and Mr. Greenwood's intuitive use of dissonance and resolution.