Sentence examples for quite insistent from inspiring English sources

I had no interest but she was quite insistent.

But he was quite insistent, as though she might be harboring the man.

"She is quite insistent that this not get treated like 'Hey, that's life in the big city,' " he said.

"I was quite insistent about that," he said, "because I didn't know how much time there was going to be".

Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, are quite insistent that their tax plan is just the elixir that the economy needs to jumpstart growth.

"I was quite insistent," says Ramakrishnan, who was based, as he is now, at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge.

Don't be quite so insistent on choreographing every department's public actions or so quick to divine evil intent when decisions are criticized.

We love going to awards for that reason, to see these huge larger-than-life figures…" It's quite endearing, this insistent modesty – but it's also, you guess, a way of taking pressure off herself for anything other than acting itself.

I don't remember another government being quite as intricate or insistent with its selective rendering of the past.

It suggests intimacy denied, motive obscured: as in Mrs Trevel, the insistent and quite possibly crazed parent who stalks a child psychologist in Poliakoff's Sweet Panic.

But, there are so many parents in 2016 quite happy (if not insistent) to look at the world through a 1980s lens.