insistency
Americannoun
plural
insistenciesOther Word Forms
- noninsistency noun
- overinsistency noun
Etymology
Origin of insistency
Example Sentences
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The camera’s medium close-ups rub their faces onto the screen with an insistency that makes you feel as overly familiar with them as they do with each other.
From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2010
Thomas Alva Edison last week again knuckled to the U. S. insistency that a celebrity be a pundit on all manner of things.
From Time Magazine Archive
"I was looking all the time for a yellow light, a yellow light, a yellow light," he chanted with desperate insistency.
From Time Magazine Archive
With tireless insistency they pushed plugs for automobiles, refrigerators, railroads, soft drinks, rifles, liquor, diamonds, Venetian blinds, cigars.
From Time Magazine Archive
And its very insistency and sincerity spell success, and are invigorating to boot.
From In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making by Putnam, George Palmer
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