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It has no website, and the store's Instagram presence, a fleeting nod to the digital world, is a mere echo of its analog insistencies.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 1, 2016

If we could not only admit it with our lips, but really and truly believe it, how our convulsive insistencies, how our antipathies and dreads of each other, would soften down!

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by James, William

There were tumultuous yearnings in her voice, innocent insistencies; she seemed to be clamoring for life, the boon that it was right and sweet for her to have.

From Rose MacLeod by Brown, Alice

These insistent unwillingnesses, no less than other aesthetic and ethical insistencies, have, it seems to me, to be listened to and respected.

From Memories and Studies by James, Henry

The terrible insistencies of society—how severe they are, and cold and inexorable—ghastly towards those who are made of wax and not of stone.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas