All 8 Uses of
insistent
in
The Age of Innocence
- To shake off the question he began to talk of their own plans, their future, and Mrs. Welland's insistence on a long engagement.†
Chpt 10
- She looked a little bored by his insistence.†
Chpt 10
- He spoke insistently, almost pleading with her in his eagerness to cover up that yawning silence.†
Chpt 12 *
- The reputation of the Mingotts' family physician was largely based on the attack of pneumonia which Mr. Welland had never had; and his insistence on St. Augustine was therefore inflexible.†
Chpt 13
- The statement was insignificant enough, and Archer was about to frame an assent when his words were checked by something mysterious yet illuminating in his visitor's insistent gaze.†
Chpt 25
- His quiet insistence made Archer feel the clumsiness of his own bluster.†
Chpt 25
- "Then it's NOT postponed?" she continued, with an insistence so unlike her that he felt the blood rising to his face, as if he were blushing for her unwonted lapse from all the traditional delicacies.†
Chpt 28
- "They were," he rejoined, surprised at her insistence.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(insistent) persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something