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
"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
The part he had played in her ruin forced itself with a nauseating insistency into Basine's mind.
From Gargoyles by Hecht, Ben
