All 8 Uses of
insistent
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- He had encouraged him to talk to him, although he had always wondered at a certain incoherence, or rather restlessness, in his mind, and could not understand what it was that so continually and insistently worked upon the brain of "the contemplative."†
Chpt 5
- This intense expectation on the part of believers displayed with such haste, such openness, even with impatience and almost insistence, impressed Father Paissy as unseemly.†
Chpt 7 *
- "Do you hear, Mitya," she went on insistently, "don't prance about, but it's nice you've brought the champagne.†
Chpt 8
- Pyotr Ilyitch politely but insistently begged her to inform her lady that an official, living in the town, called Perhotin, had called on particular business, and that if it were not of the greatest importance he would not have ventured to come.†
Chpt 9
- "So you positively declare that you are not guilty of the death of your father, Fyodor Pavlovitch?" asked the investigating lawyer, softly but insistently.†
Chpt 9
- Alyosha asked insistently.†
Chpt 11
- Ivan cried suddenly, with a sort of savage and insistent obstinacy.†
Chpt 11
- The medical line of defense had only been taken up through the insistence of Katerina Ivanovna, who had sent for a celebrated doctor from Moscow on purpose.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(insistent) persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something