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

It was to answer this insistency that industrial chemists met at Pittsburgh last week.

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

Nine o'clock rang out dully from the nearest church spire; ten o'clock, eleven o'clock followed in turn with monotonous, chiming insistency.

From Molly Make-Believe by Tittle, Walter