Both Uses of
insistent
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Then her eyes rest on Bloom with hard insistence.†
Chpt 15 *insistence = demand or persist
- The trajectories of their, first sequent, then simultaneous, urinations were dissimilar: Bloom's longer, less irruent, in the incomplete form of the bifurcated penultimate alphabetical letter, who in his ultimate year at High School (1880) had been capable of attaining the point of greatest altitude against the whole concurrent strength of the institution, 210 scholars: Stephen's higher, more sibilant, who in the ultimate hours of the previous day had augmented by diuretic consumption an insistent vesical pressure.†
Chpt 17insistent = persistent or continuing or firm
Definition:
persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something