Having served with distinction in World War I (in which he was twice wounded), he was recognized as a first-rate trainer of troops, with a forcible insistence on physical fitness, youth, and efficiency in leadership.
For Carrey, Clifton was an especially natural fit: there has always been something bullying in Carrey's performances, a bold physical and emotional insistence that is at once alluring and off-putting — a mixture of aggression and vulnerability that dares you to look away, or to judge and dismiss, but also makes you afraid to do it, or feel bad for wanting to.
In a population-based survey in Nyeri, Kenya, 21%% of females and 11%% of males under 25 years who had ever had sex, reported having been coerced into sex, either through deception, threats, insistence, physical force, being locked in a room, or rape [ 10].
Biss also probes the insistence on physical purity, which, she argues, underlies vaccine anxiety.
Does his devotion to defense, shot-blocking, and physical play, and his insistence on effort stint goal scoring?
Here, that humor is a way of keeping at bay the film's bruising insistence on physical pain.
It's a powerfully physical image, with no insistence on spiritual interpretation – a little Zen-like, perhaps.
Western gardens for many centuries were architectural, functioning as open-air rooms and demonstrating the Western insistence on physical control of the environment.
The first is articulated in Edwards' defense of theological determinism, in a doctrine of occasionalism, and in his insistence that physical objects are only collections of sensible "ideas" while finite minds are mere assemblages of "thoughts" or "perceptions".
Insistence on the physical keyboard – how could people type for any length of time on glass?
There was also something especially American in Mr. Bernard's insistence on vigorous physical workouts for all.
