Sentences with phrase «insistent call»

Tuulikki's performance in the work cloud - cuckoo - island (2016), retells the folk story of Mad Sweeney, an Irish king who wanders the wilderness deranged, mimicking the cuckoo's insistent call.

But above all, his gentle but insistent call for compassion is desperately needed in our torn and conflicted world.»

Indeed, «it is to all Christians that we address a fresh and insistent call to action» — for «beneath an outward appearance of indifference, in the heart of every man there is a will to live in brotherhood and a thirst for justice and peace, which is to be expanded.»

We normally manage to keep the insistent calls of the true working self at bay during the week.

Not exact matches

«But they were insistent,» he said, calling back and demanding details of when fuels would be pumped and through which pipelines.

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.

When I really read the Scriptures I find a Jewish man who upheld Torah, is insistent that he did not come to abolish it, and whose followers were members of a Jewish sect called The Way.

The need for a trustful relationship with life, the universe, with God — is insistent in the so - called «golden years» (which actually are more like lead than gold for some people).

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.»

Insistent questions for many women today that call for prudent and adequate answers.

about putting on her sandals on a 100 degree day, and is insistent on her rain boots and socks, let's call it a draw.

Dunlea noted that while «Governor Cuomo had cited increasing the state minimum wage as part of his so - called litmus test for the effectiveness of the Independent Democratic Caucus, it has been Senator Klein that has been most insistent on raising the wage, with indexing, while the Governor has repeatedly made recommendations to make it easier for Senator Skelos to avoid the issue.

Chaplin's flourish calls back fondly to the silent era, when grand gestures were part and parcel with florid, morally insistent storytelling.

In the reception room, under the gentle but insistent prodding of trained Assimilation Facilitators, Turks and Kurds called a truce, Tutsis queued patiently behind Hutus, Serbs chatted up Croats by the demilitarized water fountain.

In the first paragraph of the so - called article, Kozlowski talks about self - published authors with «insistent need to spam social media and pump out a copious amount of horrible ebooks...» He complains that self - published books are found right there along with what I assume he thinks are «real» books on Amazon and other online retailers.

Isolation barks are usually higher pitched than warning barks, and often occur as single barks in an increasingly insistent tone, calling attention to their plight, like; «Remember me?

These works» insistent but wounded performativity — their calling of attention to their own reduced, diminutive state — is echoed in a series of poly - silk, leather, vinyl, and film curtains that define wall space while alluding to both institutional and theatrical drapery.

«I probably would have called an ambulance if she hadn't been so insistent.

If someone is persistently insistent on making unwanted advances or gaining your attention, get loud and call attention to the problem.