Hurstwood almost exclaimed out loud at the insistency of this thing.

There was a desperate insistency about the sound.

She knocked on the door politely at first, and when no one answered, her knocking grew in insistency.

There seemed to be an insistency in her receptionist's voice; perhaps she too was intimidated by policemen?

Yet, if they had done nothing but that, the viewer's mind would have reeled at the monotonous insistency of it all.

He flicked the card with a fingernail and spoke with rising insistency.

Mothlike in its lightness and rapid insistency, the so-familiar voice spoke.

Verizon officials have long said those prices are too low, and they have repeated that with increasing insistency since Sept. 11.

Freeman asked with an odd insistency.

He speaks with considerable stillness and insistency, just as he does with his architecture students at Princeton.

The ferry bumped against the oak pilings of the jetty, pulling against its tether with a gentle insistency.

This exhilarating, troubling album, which could help spark a country-rock revival, challenges the intransigent provincialism of country music with a compelling insistency.

I was overwhelmed by him, by the insistency of his looks, his sexuality; and I was engulfed by my own erupting emotions.

Our reviewer, Peter Rowley, praised "the skillful insistency with which Fox probes her characters' lives" and "her acute sense of individual and social psychology."

Weinstein observes that the wide array of sonic effects available to metal drummers enables the "rhythmic pattern to take on a complexity within its elemental drive and insistency."

As he sang "Ballad of a Thin Man," the ultimate 60's pop put-down of bourgeois squareness, his abrasive whine still sounded outrageously provocative in its rude insistency.

Mr. Short brought a similar insistency to "I Was Young and You Were Beautiful," an obscure gem by George Gershwin and Irving Caesar.

Her eyes were on him with bright insistency; there was a singleminded intentness to them that almost amounted to avidity; insistency on knowing, on being told.

That cautionary cliche is reiterated with such bludgeoning insistency in "The Craft," an entertainingly cheesy thriller about a coven of teen-age witches, that the movie ends up turning against itself.

It was a thought that must be put from her, one that she must not entertain even for an instant; and yet it persisted-persisted with a dull insistency that brought tears to her eyes.

The evening emphasized the violinist's deep affinities to European concert music with an insistency that reminded one of how much closer in spirit to the classical realm Western European jazz tends to be than American.

All faiths, it seemed, began imperatively by saying 'Believe:' and from this ultimately fearful insistency could conjure up only images of fear and domination, something to submit to but built of nonsenses, ghosts, ancient vapours.

A real-time account of Paula's illness - the coma lasted a year - and her family's anguish intervenes with increasing insistency, until the two narrative threads dwindle to one, which snaps with the young woman's death in December 1992.

The music, synthesizer-driven (three keyboardists played most of the time), had the mechanical insistency of club music, mixed with a bit of hip-hop - fine for dancing, but simply repetitive for those of us who were just sitting and listening.

But Jesuits learned it explicitly from the Exercises; they saw it as essential in light of their ideal of ministering to almost every category of person, Catholic and other, and they recurred to it with distinctive insistency.