Both Uses of
insistent
in
Anna Karenina
- The waiter, who was busy with a party of engineers dining in the dining hall, came several times with an irate countenance in answer to her summons, and could not avoid carrying out her orders, as she gave them with such gracious insistence that there was no evading her.†
Part 5 *
- But of late, while he was staying in Moscow after his wife's confinement, with nothing to do, the question that clamored for solution had more and more often, more and more insistently, haunted Levin's mind.†
Part 8
Definition:
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(insistent) persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something