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
"I was looking all the time for a yellow light, a yellow light, a yellow light," he chanted with desperate insistency.
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
At the sound of it the primeval lover, newly renascent in Mr. Strumley's breast, cowed before the power of genitorial insistency.
From Golden Stories A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers by Various
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
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
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
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