Sentences with phrase «insistent demand»

Aitken's work draws on many other artists — text and image paintings by Ed Ruscha; video ruminations on animal intelligence by Diana Thater (Aitken's fellow student at Art Center College in the late 1980s); Bruce Nauman's insistent demand to audiences to «Please Pay Attention,» repeated in an Aitken light - box; Bill Viola's technical video - theatrics; Jack Pierson's faded wall texts composed from scavenged commercial signage; the mirrored sculptures of Robert Smithson, avatar of entropy; Yayoi Kusama's infinity chambers, and more.

But in the past decade these legal protections have been systematically dismantled in response to pressures to speed up the execution process — «we just need to kill more quickly» is the primary rejoinder to the argument that the death penalty is not a deterrent — and to address the increasingly insistent demand for «victims» rights.»

To his insistent demand that she return she only replied, «I would go back if I could, but in your arms you carry my own life.»

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

Jesus has not criticized or dismissed their insistent demand but has...

Furthermore, the elaborate patterns of culture connected with birth, initiation, courtship, marriage, illness, and death all express responses to the insistent demands of natural existence in particular circumstances of space and time.

These insistent demands for more power and possessions contain the roots of war.

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

Doing the voice of the title character, a newborn infant whose insistent demands challenge the family life of his young parents, Baldwin plays to type: court jester for the angry Hillary mob.

you can tell how vital it is to skeptics by their insistent demands that Christy and Spencer update their CDR.

Not exact matches

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

It is not the violence of terror or coercion, but the violence that makes us intransigent toward ourselves and insistent in our demand that the other live — I might say, «that the other live in a manner worthy of God's image.»

Eventually, the demands became so insistent for a complete chanted Mass in German, that he sent for the Elector's court musicians, Conrad Rupsch and Johann Walter, and had them with him for three weeks in the late summer of 1525.

Memory and imagination provide the subjective context for the organism's response to the objective demand, more or less insistent, that something be done in the present perceptual environment.

Pep Guardiola is insistent Manchester City will always play in the image he demands despite a faltering first campaign managing the club.

Demanding, Insistent, Stubborn, Bossy, Cocky, Difficult, Challenging, Fixated, Contrary, Rebellious, Defiant

But all the same it is sometimes necessary to be insistent or demanding, and this can jar with your researcher colleagues.

«She wasn't overly demanding of my time, but she was insistent when we spoke,» Mark says.

There's an extraordinary sequence, just after the birth, a montage of night after night of sleep deprivation and of her entire existence, just about, given over to the insistent and never - ending demands of the squalling infant.

Thanks in considerable part to powerful cultural trends, which have featured ever more insistent popular demands for personal freedom, marriage rates since the 1960s have tumbled, and percentages of births that are out of wedlock have escalated throughout much of the economically developed Western world.

In the beginning, the stars of the experience are the goats who are «kids» themselves; playful, adventurous, insistent, demanding.

Today's writer is bombarded with his or her insistent indie friend's demand that we must embrace social networking.

His extended note begins, «A possible explanation for the lower profits per partner in the U.K. is that clients in the U.K. are more sophisticated, demanding, less willing to pay high rates, and more insistent on budgets... If U.K. companies spend less proportionally on legal fees, there's less money to go round...»

External demands for change are not insistent; employers seem willing to train starting lawyers on the job, the ABA has been quiescent since the MacCrate Report — which found more resonance among practicing lawyers than legal academics — and universities are typically content to tax their law schools and be done with them.

It wasn't until a few sessions in that I realized that his complaint that she presented as demanding, insistent, even at times bullying, was in part because English was not her first language.