Sentences with phrase «as insistent»

Mr. Ofili has more in common with painters who couch blackness in a fierce visuality, namely Mickalene Thomas, Kerry James Marshall, Robert Colescott and Ellen Gallagher, and with more distant precedents such as the insistent colors and forms of the American painters Bob Thompson, Beauford Delaney and William H. Johnson.

I include even those as insistent as Carl Andre or as downright insane as Burden.

The route guidance voice prompts also weren't as insistent as on the Audi Q7 we tested recently.

Few horror films are as insistent about the trauma mental illness inflicts on families as Lights Out.

Still it's an extraordinary story and the film is superbly cast, from pop - up cameos — Anna Camp as a prim schoolteacher, Peter Fonda as a corrupt preacher — to heftier roles (Vincent Kartheiser as Madalyn's estranged son, Bill; Adam Scott as an insistent reporter; Josh Lucas as Madalyn's former employee and kidnapper).

There are numerous instances like this, such as the insistent neighbor in need of a dog - sitter that feels like a subplot or the fact that film conveniently takes place on Chahārshanbe - Sūri / Wednesday Feast, a holiday dating back a few centuries that both celebrates the oncoming of Spring and is a ritual that promises warmth and good health.

On outings, the younger one gets slightly special treatment, because she's younger and can not walk as far, or because she really * cares * about driving the shopping cart while the older one isn't as insistent, and so on.

In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where the deep thinkers of the committee saw the error of their ways and came, at last, almost full circle to the free - substitution rule of the late»40s, in the background, as insistent as ever, was the voice of Fritz Crisler.

Lewis managed to do so even as the insistent world pressed in upon him ---- the invitations to speak, the flattering applause, the evidence, all around him, that he had become a Great Man.

But he's equally as insistent that for a non-profit to remain relevant and engaged, they must take advantage of as many revenue tools as possible: «These organizations that are funded 90 % by government, that's the kiss of death.»

Not exact matches

«Trump comes across as needy since he is insistent on holding her hand when she is clearly not interested.»

Defense stocks have climbed as Congress inched closer to a spending agreement, with President Donald Trump insistent that any bill includes more funding for the armed forces.

Harper was insistent on the project, going so far as to call it a «no - brainer,» while U.S. President Barack Obama was lukewarm on the project, before officially rejecting the project in early November.

It would be more interesting to talk about the president losing control of his own spins in ways that reveal (as Carl is more insistent that I am) his deep inauthenticity or lack of character.

It would be more interesting to talk about the president losing control of his own spins in ways that reveal (as Carl is more insistent that I am) his deep inauthenticity or lack....

George tells me that Nava described it as a «bad part of his past» and that Nava was insistent that the assault on him had not been fabricated.

There will always be people who are sincerely insistent that they are Catholic and are, as Cole Porter might say, true to the Church in their fashion.

It is no accident that Percy summons Flannery O'Connor to such questions as well; but unlike her, he does not anchor his response in St. Augustine and St. Paul (we have here no abiding place) nor in St. Thomas, whose argument is insistent that the poet's, the artist's, responsibility is to the good of the thing being made, not with the correction of appetites in his audience.

My dear friend who died in less than 18 months from aggressive breast cancer was told by the vicar to apologise to the church committee about a minor matter or «consider her future as a member» (I helped her prepare her reply and told her that she couldn't say what she wanted to say, she was insistent but I was emphatic «it's not the content....

I want to embrace the practice of rising up, of resurrection, as the spiritual discipline it was always meant to be: disruptive and insistent, joyful and off - the - path.

Her autobiography reveals her in her younger days as a prayerful person, devoted to the Blessed Sacrament and insistent on living out the principles of her faith.

But Whitehead was also insistent that beauty involves contrast as well as harmony.

Some of the deepest moments have been when Peter, with his insistent yet disarming directness of questioning, has pressed at the differences between us as Jew and Christian.

Vast as the actual world is, and insistent as actual occasions are upon realizing novelty, the potential variety contained in the actual situation is finite.

This picture of the Dutch artist's dependence on his Flemish forbear (Rubens was almost 30 years Rembrandt's senior) exaggerates the evidence and contradicts Schama's other insistent claim: that Rembrandt should be recognized as an unparalleled genius.

It expresses not only the «holy insecurity» of his existentialist philosophy but also the «I - Thou,» or dialogical, philosophy which he has formulated as a genuine third alternative to the insistent either - or's of our age.

The practical problems of organizing life in the present were dealt with only as the needs were insistent.

As the parable of the lost coin reminds us, God comes after us with insistent determination.

In this regard Hartshorne's attachment to the virtue tradition is closer to that of G. H. Von Wright, who was insistent that the path to virtue is never laid out in advance, and to that of Lester Hunt, who claims that thought and emotions are fused in virtues rather than thought controlling emotion as an alien, recalcitrant subject matter.6 In the terms of Hartshorne's process philosophy, and of his Peirceian pragmatism7, a person's principles are seen in his actions just as in Hartshorne's metaphysics universals are embedded in the world of becoming, as Aristotle and Plato (correctly read, according to Hartshorne) have also indicated.

As I wrestled with what it meant to be a woman of faith, I realized that, despite insistent claims that we don't «pick and choose» from the Bible, any claim to a «biblical» lifestyle requires some serious selectivity.

As in similar Native American traditions, «all these symbolic images and gestures are associated with the wind and with the breathing of the universe — the visible motion of the power that invests everything in existence» (Jamake Highwater in Ritual of the Wind) To exist in family is to experience an insistent Chinook wind, blowing warm in winter and cool in summer, lending a direction and center to all that one does.

This concentration on the idea of revelation as God's plan is all the more insistent in what apocalyptic literature which was subsequently grafted on to the prophetic trunk, calls «apocalypse» — i.e., revelation in the strict sense of the word — the unveiling of God's plans concerning the «last days.»

The strumming of an insistent guitar frames the song as a death march or final voyage.

Yet Whitehead might tell us that we try too hard, that we are too insistent on lifting our purposes into consciousness and examining them, that such tensions as those between love and duty reflect the frustrations of a life that strives for too much autonomy.

My perspective is that there are a number of connections that arise both from the issues that confront us as Christians living in a mass media age and from the Bible's insistent message.

Professor Tillich himself, to whom we referred at the beginning of this lecture, although not at all identified with process - thought, was insistent on the necessity for the development of a modern philosophical theology and was increasingly finding himself in sympathy with many of the conclusions of thinkers such as Hartshorne; and more recently, as he himself acknowledged in the preface to the third volume of Systematic Theology, he associated his own views with those of Teilhard.

I am insistent that people don't misrepresent my thoughts as being something different from what they are.

«Dairy producers and processors in our states are deeply concerned that this market concentration provides New Zealand, the world's largest dairy exporter, with a tremendous advantage in global markets and are insistent on seeing it effectively addressed as a necessary precursor to any expansion of US - New Zealand dairy trade in TPP.»

That doesn't mean they can't, as Liverpool showed this past summer with Philippe Coutinho that if a club is insistent about a player staying, regardless of whether it's Barcelona knocking on the door, then they can make it happen.

Normally, that's the other way around (Urban Meyer to Ohio State and James Franklin to Penn State), but Bielema has been insistent that the by - the - numbers, run - heavy, pro-style offense and competent defense that got him to all those Rose Bowls as Wisconsin's head coach could unseat Alabama and dominate the South.

Time being the insistent force that it is, Agovino grows and so does the sport; by the end of the book, as he reprints in full the 34 games from around the world due to be shown over one weekend in 2009, he seems almost overwhelmed by the monster that football in America has become.

But such objections, perhaps, are for purists, and so long as games are being won they can be dismissed by fans and by Van Gaal as nothing more than the grumbling of old men insistent things were better in their day.

Keita is widely seen as Liverpool's top summer target, but they have struggled to convince Leipzig to sell — who remain insistent he is not leaving.

It's reported by the Spanish media outlet Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich is insistent on bringing Bale to Stamford Bridge, and could even use Eden Hazard as bait.

As we revealed in October, Liverpool's hierarchy have told Klopp that he will have the final say on Coutinho's future — and as it stands the German is insistent that he wants to keep the former Inter Milan acAs we revealed in October, Liverpool's hierarchy have told Klopp that he will have the final say on Coutinho's future — and as it stands the German is insistent that he wants to keep the former Inter Milan acas it stands the German is insistent that he wants to keep the former Inter Milan ace.

Rodgers is insistent that Celtic will turn down any offers as he plans to be stronger for the Champions League qualifiers.

Ruby has never really been into sport, we do swimming but I'm insistent on that more as a life skill than an exercise, but she's recently discovered indoor climbing and totally loves it, the difference it's made has been incredible in terms of her confidence.

And what should you do if your baby is insistent on using you as their personal pacifier?

Socio - cultural influences, such as a worried, insistent grandmother who thinks the baby «just ate» and therefore can't possibly need to feed again can undermine a mother's confidence in whether she can satisfy her baby's appetite.

Try to notice a difference between your baby's insistent hunger cry and other types of crying, such as tiredness or overstimulation.