Both Uses of
insistent
in
A Thousand Acres
- At breakfast, Ty was mild but insistent.†
p. 110.7insistent = persistent or continuing or firm
- Normally I hated waking in the night with him so close to me, but my earlier fantasies must have primed me, because the very sense of it there, a combination of feeling its insistent pressure and imagining its smooth heavy shape, doused me like a hot wave, and instantly I was breathless.†
p. 161.9 *
Definition:
persistent or continuing or firm -- especially in maintaining a view or demanding something