Sentence examples for rather insistent from inspiring English sources

"They were rather insistent about it".

After a minute or two, however, some rather insistent drums kick in.

Of electronics that may come to irk some drivers, I'd add the highly sensitive lane-departure alert system, which emits a rather insistent beep.

There's a telling scene in which Julienne is being interviewed by a rather insistent journalist (Chloé Caillat) who asks her to define talent.

The wisdom of this counsel will become plainly evident when you discover that the man who offered it, and who was rather insistent about it, is himself smiling in his own mug shot.

The painting is important as a forerunner of Impressionism and because it features a rather insistent horizon line; it is also related to Boudin's most celebrated body of work, marine paintings of bathers in a line on the seashore.

Married and not the slightest bit interested, she found him rather too insistent.

"What's the weather been like in London?" "Oh," I lied, as kindly as I could, "a bit cloudy now and then, in between the unbearably hot and really rather unpleasantly insistent sunshine".

Commanderie de Peyrassol Côtes de Provence Rosé, France 2012 (£10.99, or £9.99 if you buy two bottles, Majestic) The opposite end of the rosé spectrum from the Navarra, this typically pale Provençal pink is gentle rather than insistent, with crisp, almost citrussy acidity, and a winning coolness to its watermelon and redcurrant and subtle spice.

Reports from comrades in the British press corps suggest that the Scotsman was greeted like a rather too-insistent cousin who has dropped in for tea.

The decision did not set multiple standards, the Gore brief said, but rather "was quite insistent that the counting of ballots must be governed by a single uniform standard: the intent of the voter must control".