Sentence examples for the insistence with from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Foremost among Lutheran teachings is the insistence, shared with all Protestant traditions, that the Bible is the sole source of religious authority.

There are no lilies in the hospital room today, just sounds, the soft sound of sighing from the next cubicle, and the quiet insistence with which Rustin is speaking.

An apparently random collection of scattered experiences, it mingles affecting vignettes with episodes in a heartier, comic mode, but coherence of imagination is secured by the delicate insistence with which Sterne ponders how the impulses of sentimental and erotic feeling are psychologically interdependent.

Even here, with the families, a version of the tourist binary emerged: insistence, with the civic envoy and the signage; reticence, with the succession of ceremonial rites; and, between these, nothing, no intelligible public transmission of private grief.

One of the most obvious gaps between Mr. Arafat and the Israelis -- and the Bush administration -- was the Palestinian leader's insistence with the general that peace talks should be resumed at the point where they left off at the end of the Clinton presidency.

In the EU, regulations were strengthened in 2013 with the insistence of sharks being landed with fins naturally attached, a method widely acknowledged as the most reliable means for implementing a finning ban.