All 5 Uses of
insistent
in
A Prayer for Owen Meany
- Since her death, Owen had hinted that the strongest force compelling him to attend Gravesend Academy—namely, my mother's insistence—was gone.†
p. 161.6insistence = demand or persist
- He would continue to torture himself, of course, with the insistent and self-destructive notion that he loved my mother.†
p. 555.7 *insistent = persistent or continuing or firm
- Then a cloud passed over the hole the baseball had made in the stained-glass window of the chancel; Owen's gold medal glowed a little less insistently.†
p. 572.8insistently = in a persistent or firm manner
- The insistent breeze must have been coming off the desert, for it was not a wind I'd ever felt before, and I've never felt it since.†
p. 592.5insistent = persistent or continuing or firm
- Owen knocked on the door a little more insistently.†
p. 608.9insistently = in a persistent or firm manner
Definition:
persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something