All 11 Uses of
insistent
in
Tender is the Night
- There were secret noises in the air, an insistent bird achieved an ill-natured triumph with regularity in the trees above the tennis court; footfalls followed a round drive in the rear of the hotel, taking their tone in turn from the dust road, the crushed-stone walk, the cement steps, and then reversing the process in going away.†
Chpt 1.9
- She assumed that they were dull and stereotyped people, or gross and drunken people, or tiresome, insistent people, or any of the sorts of people that the Divers avoided.†
Chpt 1.16
- They were shocked motionless; the knock was repeated insistently, and in the sudden realization that the door was not locked Rosemary...
Chpt 1.24 *insistently = in a persistent or firm manner (demanding to be answered)
- The disentanglement was not even faintly in sight and the day had passed in an atmosphere of unfamiliar Negro faces bobbing up in unexpected places and around unexpected corners, and insistent Negro voices on the phone.†
Chpt 1.24
- But having recorded this wisdom within himself, he yielded to the insistent face-value of the situation and said: "You're a nice person—just keep using your own judgment about yourself.†
Chpt 2.9
- He breathed over her shoulder and turned her insistently about; she kissed him several times, her face getting big every time she came close, her hands holding him by the shoulders.†
Chpt 2.9
- It was necessary to treat her with active and affirmative insistence, keeping the road to reality always open, making the road to escape harder going.†
Chpt 2.15
- One who leaned insistently in his face he pushed harshly away.†
Chpt 2.22
- This last to the insistent man who had edged up once more.†
Chpt 2.22
- She drove to the American Embassy where she paid off the taxi-driver upon his insistence.†
Chpt 2.23
- They were suddenly interrupted by an insistent American, of sinister aspect, vending copies of The Herald and of The Times fresh from New York.†
Chpt 3.11
Definition:
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(insistent) persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something