demandingly
Americanadverb
Other Word Forms
- undemandingly adverb
Example Sentences
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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
She didn’t worry about writing too demandingly because Menzel “is unbelievable. We like to say, ‘If they give us a Stradivarius, we’re gonna write for a Stradivarius.’
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2019
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
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
Perhaps the thought came to her that a wife need not ask so much, ask so demandingly that a man must yield his finest dreams, his every hour to fulfill her wishes.
From Suzanna Stirs the Fire by Blake, Emily Calvin
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