NOUN
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the state of demanding notice or attention
the press of business matters
the insistence of their hunger -
the act of insisting on something
insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position
How To Use insistency In A Sentence
- My chest begins to hurt with more insistency, a couple of coughs rippling through me; there's no time for that now though, as my mind cries out in urgency.
- Hurstwood almost exclaimed out loud at the insistency of this thing. Sister Carrie
- The experiments showed that the model can work efficiently and practically, and keep the topological insistency of the vector spatial data.
- His mind throbbed with greater insistency at the startling conclusion that had presented itself.
- It was the first Cannes Film Festival of the new century, but it felt more like an end than a beginning, as the past returned, in film after film, with weight and insistency.
- As he mended she had to meet that request of his, advanced with even stronger insistency. A Changed Man
- ‘Seven Nation Army,’ the opening track and first single, fares the best, with its muted insistency and Jack White's inspired vocal turns.
- I'm not a Wings fan really, but I quite like the pulsating insistency and the layered backing vocals.
- Jack said to her, with the same quiet, husky note of intimacy, insistency, and the reddish light on his face. Kangaroo
- He also remarked, more significantly from an aesthetic point of view, “A noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency.” Matthew Alderman in Dappled Things