insistency
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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
It was to answer this insistency that industrial chemists met at Pittsburgh last week.
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
With tireless insistency they pushed plugs for automobiles, refrigerators, railroads, soft drinks, rifles, liquor, diamonds, Venetian blinds, cigars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Since then others, and in particular Mr. Andrew Lang, have with much insistency declared that the bottom picture represents a meeting of the risen Edwin Drood with his horror-stricken uncle, John Jasper.
From The Problem of 'Edwin Drood' A Study in the Methods of Dickens by W. Robertson Nicoll
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
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 Thomas Hardy
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 Henry James
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 Alice Brown
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 William James
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