insistency
Americannoun
plural
insistenciesOther Word Forms
- noninsistency noun
- overinsistency noun
Etymology
Origin of insistency
Example Sentences
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The camera’s medium close-ups rub their faces onto the screen with an insistency that makes you feel as overly familiar with them as they do with each other.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2010
With tireless insistency they pushed plugs for automobiles, refrigerators, railroads, soft drinks, rifles, liquor, diamonds, Venetian blinds, cigars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thomas Alva Edison last week again knuckled to the U. S. insistency that a celebrity be a pundit on all manner of things.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was to answer this insistency that industrial chemists met at Pittsburgh last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
But my stern soul Plucks me yet back with cold insistency I cannot master....
From Mr. Faust by Ficke, Arthur Davison
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