Both Uses of
insistent
in
The Adventures of Augie March
- I wasn't so intoxicated with its being my night that I couldn't see a reason for Einhorn's insistence, a small darkness of a reason no bigger than a field mouse yet and very swift.†
Chpt 7 *insistence = demand or persist
- It maybe means that what is needed to mitigate the foolishness or dissolve the deception is always superabundantly about and insistently offered to us—a black offer in Charing Cross; a gray in Place Pereires where you see so many kinds and varieties of beings go to and fro in the liquid and fog; a brown in the straight unity of Wabash Avenue.†
Chpt 11insistently = in a persistent or firm manner
Definition:
persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something