Even in these few sentences it is possible to hear the unremitting quality of Leopardi's pessimism, the crushing insistence, which distinguishes it from the seductive melancholy of other Romantic poets.
Even now, he is not officially Congress' prime ministerial candidate - reportedly at his mother's insistence, which Mr Modi seized on as proof of the party's "imminent defeat".
Too much persistence can result in rigid insistence, which like its opposite - negligence - is toxic to the patient.
Moreover, while a theory such as Railton's sophisticated consequentialism can acknowledge that a sophisticated consequentialist agent might sometimes knowingly bring about less than maximally good consequences, such a theory must nonetheless continue to insist that each particular act of doing so is indeed morally wrong — an insistence which seems contrary to our moral intuitions (Jollimore 2001).
One of the points of the exhibition is that it reveals the insistence with which a given theme was dwelt upon in the ancient world, and therefore, how important it was to society.
The insistence with which Katherine presses her mildly progressive agenda at the elite women's college makes her a kind of academic Erin Brockovich, or so the movie wants us to believe.
But what both impressed and startled me about that afternoon in Flushing in 2012 was the insistence with which she tried to convince me how "normal" her life was.
The arc of a suddenly raised arm, the insistence with which a singer alternates between two notes, the proud stretch of shoulders above a pulled-up waistline, a rapid series of strong guitar chords, the drumming of heels into the floor: for those of us who are susceptible, these ingredients can come together in the most profoundly satisfying way.
At the insistence of the Netherlands — which has consistently put a brake on Serbia's push for membership — the union's decision included a statement that future steps would be approved only if all member countries agreed that Belgrade was cooperating fully with war crime investigations.
I was just on my way out, I said, and pointed toward the exit with the same insistence with which the woman in the kimono was pointing at the group.
