Sentences with phrase «from insistent»

Nonetheless, Richter notoriously once expressed disdain for drawing's vaunted guarantee of authenticity and virtuosity — in part from his insistent and complete commitment to painting.

The first Beaches Resort opened in 1997 and was a brand born from the insistent requests of couples who loved Sandals Resorts and wanted a similar experience to share with their families.

I do want to indulge you, Mr Speaker, that there is some ongoing insecurity in Tamale and for that matter in Ghana arising from the insistent, violent attacks between members of the military, the armed forces and the Ghana Police Service.

His sovereign, who seldom altered course, had decided to protect him from the insistent demands of Rome to surrender him in person.

It has an irreducible, independent core, and receives determinations from insistent, intrusive forces....

Each day in the Octave of Christmas the words are cast again upon the air, resonating like ripples out into the world and reclaiming time from its insistent march away, always away, from what is before us.

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But, to refrain from passing from one figure to another, I will raise this question, which I often consider in my own heart: why is it that folly holds us with such an insistent grasp?

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....

Jesus has not criticized or dismissed their insistent demand but has lovingly transformed it from a desire for glory into a willingness to suffer.

Even more significantly, we have the sense, vague but insistent, of derivation from the body: the very dim awareness of the eye being causally involved in seeing and the stronger sense of the hand, or other part of the body, being involved in touch.

It is also why the insistent human belief that justice for all people and deliverance from oppression and servitude is met by the divine Love that labors for precisely such justice and freedom.

Always he was insistent on the need for peaceful protest, citing John Paul's quotation from the Scriptures not to repay evil with evil but with good.

When we turn from these late narratives to the earliest testimony to the Easter faith which we possess, we find the same insistent appeal to scripture.

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.

The winds in Hawaii almost always come from the East, and are strong, steady, insistent.

The Catechism is insistent, however, that this human knowing of Jesus was not autonomous, taking strength from the thoughts of the Fathers, particularly Gregory the Great and Maximus the Confessor:

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.

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

UEFA President, Michel Platini, has been insistent on staying away from goal line technology and instant replay, and instead has elected to use extra officials near the goal line.

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.

The traders seem insistent that Southampton's refusal to sell him in the summer indicates he is there for the season; the odds on him being with Southampton after the January window shortening in recent days from 1/2 to 1/5, with moves to rumoured destinations Liverpool (28/17 out to 5/2) and Man City (7/1 out to 11/1) both drifting fairly significantly.

Our older daughter is 3 and it has been really interesting to see my husband go from asking about the rationale behind everything and wondering why I was being so insistent on doing something so unusual, to being a pretty hard core believer in AP principles.

That's why I included the word insistent, because for some moms, you may only be able to talk her into a twenty minute absence from her home, but hopefully in those twenty minutes, she'll find the refreshment she didn't even know she was needing.

Diane Abbott and Andy Burnham were both insistent that those from working - class and minority backgrounds are most at risk of disenfranchisment.

In sharp contrast from Tillerson's moderate tone, Pompeo on March 11 was insistent that appeasement for North Korea was not forthcoming: «Make no mistake about it, while these negotiations are going on, there will be no concessions made.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo, facing political pressure from the left to push Democrats to a majority, was similarly insistent on Tuesday evening at the victory party for Democrat Shelley Mayer that all Democrats in the Senate — Felder included — must work together.

But Paterson's office was insistent that the $ 6 million needed for parks could only be allocated if there were proportionate savings or revenues from other sources.

And he will remember as I do the insistent and increasingly shrill «jaw - boning» from a defiant chancellor who could not acknowledge that continued ERM membership was making the recession worse.

Percoco was insistent that he'd gotten approval from state lawyers for the work he performed, and that none of it involved state contracts, she said.

Citing the number of great successes medical research has brought us — lifesaving drugs from penicillin to insulin, along with invaluable treatments and medical devices — he adds, «It's one more reason why we have to be appropriately skeptical, unafraid to speak out about misleading claims, and insistent upon holding clinical research to the standards of science.»

The second, meanwhile, is that we have had devastating flooding of a major city from a hurricane event in each of the last three presidencies, even as the climate hurricane debate has grown steadily more insistent.

It's interesting how they've evolved from the first little signs of movement, little scratches and pops, to sturdier, more insistent thumps, and now to the unmistakable sensation of something, someone, moving their limbs around inside of me.

Coldly dismissive of any long - term romantic future but brattishly insistent on sex («I just got in from Brazil and felt like banging you,» he leers), Vincent is the least palatable of Isabelle's wrong choices; on the flipside, a dreamy married actor (Nicolas Duvauchelle) is cagey when it comes to carnal knowledge but finds in Isabelle an emotional sounding - board.

The insistent crosscutting suggests there is something powerful between the two stories, but apart from vague connections of jealousy, emotional tension and conversations that constantly dance around the real issues, they don't resonate across the years.

From its opening stage, Sonic Forces displays a number of issues that are emblematic of the journey ahead: Its insistent tutorial messages interrupt your initial sprint down a winding road, the cinematic transition sequences that take you from one path the next that renders you an observer, not an active participant, and right as you're about to settle into the glee of your mad dash forward, the stage eFrom its opening stage, Sonic Forces displays a number of issues that are emblematic of the journey ahead: Its insistent tutorial messages interrupt your initial sprint down a winding road, the cinematic transition sequences that take you from one path the next that renders you an observer, not an active participant, and right as you're about to settle into the glee of your mad dash forward, the stage efrom one path the next that renders you an observer, not an active participant, and right as you're about to settle into the glee of your mad dash forward, the stage ends.

Kushner and Spielberg largely refrain from showing the famous speeches and give us the political schemer, the persuader, the teller of bawdy barnyard stories, the gentle father and husband, and the fiercely insistent leader who will not accept a Confederate surrender without the absolute abolition of slavery.

In its own quietly insistent way, the picture takes the sort of tragedies that have inflamed a nation and been co-opted for all sorts of political purposes — tragedies from Fruitvale to Sanford, Fla. — and brings them back down to human scale.

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).

Director Kelly Reichardt has made a quiet, insistent signature of telling personal stories from the fringe.

I admire all of these contenders, from Desplat's lilting compositions in Shape of Water to the insistent bluntness of Burwell's work on Three Bilboards.

While he should be warming up to Mason and Cummings, Dreyfuss is busy in the play from hell subplot with Paul Benedict as a misguided but insistent director.

Rees has an eye for the grubby poetic details — a possum lying dead in the dirt, a week's worth of grime being scrubbed from a woman's shoulders — but she doesn't linger on them so much as catch them on the fly, keeping the frame in gentle, insistent motion.

He is insistent that he will never take money from munitions or the dealers of war and death, and is in fact reliant on an exasperated patron: JP Morgan, nicely played by Matthew Macfadyen.

It seems that Roger's pants are on fire — as soon as we're rolling, the rear of the Jag dips, there's a hollow, insistent roar from its quartet of tailpipes and its chunky rump is gone.

There's no question that the V10 offers a lot more low - rev urge than the V8, and it delivers in a more linear fashion too, the final lunge for peak power at 8000rpm a smooth, insistent ramping up from peak torque.

The engine revs with an insistent shoe well into the high six - thousands, yet - and this is the extraordinary bit - it pulls with conviction and not a hint of stumble right from its 600rpm idle.

All that torque arrives from just 1,550 rpm: there's no turbo lag, simply an insistent wave of power that thrusts you ahead.

Think of this generation as a Miata with an afterburner, because after 5,000 rpm, the exhaust note goes from a pleasant retro snarl to the insistent shriek of a modern high - performance engine, and the car surges ahead quickly.

The Ford F - Series Super Duty is all - new for 2017, arriving to insistent declarations from the automaker that it's the «toughest, smartest, most capable Super Duty ever.»

And their children, the Marys: Mary Grace, the devastating beauty; Mary Tessa, the insistent inquisitor; Mary Catherine, the saintly, lost soul; and finally, Amaryllis, Seena's unspoken favorite, born with the mystifying ability to sense the future, touch the past, and distinguish the truth tellers from the most convincing liar of all.