Sentence examples for insisting itself from inspiring English sources

She didn't want to be married anymore, she realized: "I was trying so hard not to know this, but the truth kept insisting itself to me".

Now and then the outside world insists itself upon this world – the July Revolution and voyages to the Americas are mentioned – but nothing really punctures the perfect smallness of Felicité's existence.

Instead the titles of Archimboldi's books recur as a kind of pulse of implication, until the conjectured power of an unknown literature has insisted itself upon us like a disease, one that might just draw us down with the savagery of a murderer operating in a moonless desert.

It refuses to insist itself upon the viewers with ham-fisted truisms.

The consequence is a refreshing, if simultaneously revelation-bearing, state of address, where what is transgressed is world-weariness and stasis each line insists itself alive, a kind of organism.

Insisting upon itself, it can trick you into thinking that nothing has changed.

But it insisted on itself.

In other, less glamorous ways, life in Nablus still insists upon itself.

The great divide between black and white America will continue to insist upon itself.

Indeed, as no less an authority than Thomas Aquinas rightly insists, existence itself is a questionable predicate to use of God.

"Peeling the Onion" is a verbally dazzling but often infuriating piece of work, bristling with harsh self-criticism, murky evasions and coy revisions of a past that, Mr. Grass steadfastly insists, presents itself to his novelist's imagination as a parade of images and stories asking to be manipulated.