All 8 Uses
insistent
in
The Iceman Cometh
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- He goes on insistently.†
Act 2insistently = in a persistent or firm manner
- (insistently—with a sneer) I think it would help us poor pipe-dreaming sinners along the sawdust trail to salvation if you told us now what it was happened to you that converted you to this great peace you've found†
Act 2
- Parritt goes on, his tone becoming more insistent.†
Act 4insistent = persistent or continuing or firm
- He complains with a stupid, nagging insistence) No life in the booze!†
Act 4insistence = demand or persist
- PARRITT—(to Larry in a low insistent tone) I burnt up Mother's picture, Larry.†
Act 4insistent = persistent or continuing or firm
- HICKEY—(as they start walking toward rear—insistently) All I want you to see is I was out of my mind afterwards, when I laughed at her!†
Act 4insistently = in a persistent or firm manner
- PARRITT—(leans toward him—in a strange low insistent voice) Yes, but he isn't the only one who needs peace, Larry.†
Act 4insistent = persistent or continuing or firm
- HUGO—(with uneasy insistence) What's matter, Larry?†
Act 4 *insistence = demand or persist
Definitions:
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(1)
(insistent) persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)