All 4 Uses

insistent
in
Seventeenth Summer
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Lorraine was chipping the nail polish off the nails of one hand with the other hand as she read, making a small, insistent noise as irritating as the screak of chalk on the blackboard.†
Chpt June

insistent = persistent or continuing or firm
Even when I was talking to Jack I could see it out of the corner of my eye, the slow, blurred turnings of the lights, quietly insistent.†
Chpt July *
Jack's hand on mine was warm and insistent but his voice was strangely stiff and scared.†
Chpt July
"You aren't afraid to go with me, Angie," he said insistently, his voice warm with persuasion as he took my hand to help me to my feet.†
Chpt Augu

insistently = in a persistent or firm manner

Definitions:

(1) (insistent)
persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)