Take That's production manager coined the phrase "backstage rock star" for Des, a man who was the lifeblood of after-show parties (at one of which he insisted on explaining, unsuccessfully, to Jay-Z the difference between east and west coast rap).
When I tried to offer an extra tip, he insisted on explaining that a service charge had already been included in the $27.38 bill.
A methodological naturalist would insist on explaining all phenomena, however strange, in natural terms.
Even then, he insists on explaining "the Eastern philosophy" he studies, at such tedious length that what are basically chiropractic sessions are 10percenttreatmentnt and 90percentt explanation of how the blood flows around the brain when the chakras or whatever are in tune with the moon.
She insisted on transcending labels.
This system insists on precision, explained David Bodenhamer, a historian at Indiana University who is editing a series of books on the spatial humanities.
A veteran health policy consultant in Washington, who insisted on anonymity, explained the situation this way: "Opponents of the legislation don't want to fix this issue, they want to use it as fodder to repeal the whole law.
From the minute he arrived, there was a swarm of visitors, people he knew and people he didn't know, smiling and scraping, and insisting on an audience, to explain their troubles and to tell him how he should help.
"I made our stand very clear, and explained we're insisting on 100percentt results, and not on the efforts," he told an Israeli television interviewer in Washington today.
