He pestered her with negative thoughts about his life's work, insistent that his ignominious end would eclipse his literary legacy.
It didn't work; insistent as he was, Jackson could not still the relentless booing as Davis stood silently.
Moore is famously controlling with the illustrators of his comics work, insistent on his own system — as if wary, in Blake's phrase, of being "enslav'd by another Mans".
Accordingly, she's titled this show "Lavoro," Italian for "work," an insistent word that at once underscores the effort spent and romanticizes it.
Reviewing the show in Canadian Art, critic Sholem Krishtalka wrote that Munro's work is "insistent on the necessity of self-made culture and buttressed by an encyclopedic knowledge of queer underground cultural history".
Even the concert's most aggressive, insistent work, Bryan Jacobs's new "Play May Shay Fay Bay," a MATA commission, had a lucidity of texture that felt, well, delicate.
He produced a huge sound without much apparent effort, but even in the work's most insistent, tension-radiating moments — the passages in the Allegro moderato supported by insistently pounding bass figures, and the sizzling Vivace finale — he kept the music's energy tightly focused and maintained an impressive clarity of texture.
But a fair accounting of the problems of the office of the independent counsel — the ever-expanding scope, length, and cost of its work, and its insistent focus on behavior that may not be criminal at all — suggest that these problems owe more to the nature of the law establishing the office than to any particular occupant.
But a fair accounting of the problems of the office of the independent counsel the ever-expanding scope, length, and cost of its work, and its insistent focus on behavior that may not be criminal at all suggest that these problems owe more to the nature of the law establishing the office than to any particular occupant.
Work, in particular, insistent and inflexible, is deeply bound up with how close to the edge you happen to be at any particular time.
Jose Canseco was apparently a jerk to work with, completely insistent his character be "heroic"—making his rescue of a player piano from a burning house doubly goofy.
