Insistence

Word INSISTENCE
Character 10
Hyphenation in sist ence
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Insistence"

What do we mean by insistence?

The state of being insistent.

An urgent demand.

The forcing of an attack through the parry, using strength.

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The word "insistence" in example sentences

This insistence is the more striking because a number of critics — most passionately and recently Harold Bloom — have associated Shakespeare with the rejected Falstaff, and Hal with the narcissistic young Earl of Southampton, whom Shakespeare may have courted in the first part of his love-sonnet sequence. ❋ Unknown (2004)

They told him, with a certain insistence, that was half appeal for belief, half challenge for contradiction, how much they were going to enjoy their idleness. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But the administration's "ideological insistence" is one that Thiessen's former boss presumably shared, since the Bush administration prosecuted hundreds of terrorism-related cases in civilian court, with an 88 percent conviction rate according to NYU's Center for Law and Security. ❋ Adam Serwer (2010)

Because A: Obama despite the media's insistence is NOT God, and B? ❋ Unknown (2009)

"She does not wish to speak with you, and your insistence is insult." ❋ Unknown (2010)

To this end, Israel's challenge and insistence is a deliberate attempt to change the law. ❋ Noura Erakat (2010)

There are probably contingency plans for war with Canada, even war with aliens from anothere galaxy, but I bet the idea that we may actually have to leave Iraq at Iraqi insistence is viewed as too unpatriotic to even consider. ❋ Unknown (2008)

His insistence is that voters focus on the top of the ticket (McCain). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Beyond its more recent — and certainly relevant — role in Lacanian psychoanalytic discourse as an English translation ofinstance, insistence is defined by the OED as the very ❋ Unknown (2005)

At the same time, this quality of aesthetic insistence is contrary to the nature of an aesthetic judgment which presents itself as something singular and instantaneous. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Silent Urns, Ferris arrives at some crucial formulations which complicate the de Manian reading and demonstrate that insistence is the perhaps the best way to characterize the relationship between Kant and ❋ Unknown (2005)

“I refer to your insistence that your wife be a full-spectrum prism, among other things.” ❋ Jayne Castle (1998)

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