All 6 Uses of
insistent
in
The Fountainhead
- Keating had thrown his arm about Shlinker's shoulders; Keating's eyes had glowed with an insistent kind of warmth, as if Shlinker were his most precious friend; Keating's eyes glowed like that on everybody.†
Chpt 1.2
- Keating had never felt comfortable in Mrs. Holcombe's presence, because she smiled at him too insistently and commented on his remarks by winking and saying: "Why, Peter, how naughty of you!" when no such intention had been in his mind at all.†
Chpt 1.10
- She had stated insistently, in her publicity and in private conversation, that she was sixty-four.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- She spoke about it insistently to anyone who would listen.†
Chpt 2.15
- Someone at a distant table stared in their direction insistently, someone tall and bulky.†
Chpt 3.3
- It clung to her with a tight insistence that seemed conscious, like the peremptory caress of a cat.†
Chpt 3.5
Definition:
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(insistent) persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something