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

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

Once more the thought of a steaming hot cup of tea came to me with compelling insistency, provoking an almost overpowering longing for the comforts of some roofed and walled domicile, howsoever humble.

From Fibble, D.D. by Sarg, Tony