demandingly
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Another phrase thrown around with increasing fervor in the pandemic era — demandingly, insistently, belligerently or maybe just hopefully — is “we have to live our lives!”
From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2021
They need it, too: Kelli Barclay’s tap-driven dance routines are demandingly spectacular and endlessly resourceful.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2018
McCartney’s voice has long operated in a demandingly high range, and at 73, he had to push to reach some of the highest notes he wrote for himself all those years ago.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2016
This troubled grandmother, though, is her best performance yet, reaching with perfect pitch all of the script's demandingly contradictory notes of tragedy, comedy, love, guilt, weakness and courage.
From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2014
From across the handful of flames Ashe's eyes, too bright in a fever-flushed face, watched him demandingly.
From The Time Traders by Norton, Andre
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