Sentences with phrase «insistent in»

Our modern society is insistent in its messaging, «Acquire a little more and you'll be on the threshold of happiness.

«Above all, the painting itself is insistent in its three - dimensional presence as a thing.»

[7] Though no direct connections to the present are drawn by the exhibition's curatorial strategy or in its supporting materials, all of the artworks bound forth, insistent in their messages, vital in their relevance.

But if they're insistent in making Link an avatar for the sake of the player feeling they are actually Link... Then yeah, there should be a female option.

Peppered with a near - constant barrage of footnotes on the lower third of the frame identifying whatever varietal of crop viewers happen to be observing at a given moment, the film is insistent in its efforts to stoke interest in gardening and pruning, yet it stops short of bridging the gap for those less inherently spellbound by soil, roots, and branches.

He knows where he should be in today's NFL Draft - and he is insistent in telling Brown's GM Sonny Weaver exactly how the team's pick should go down.

The AHA and US government dietary guidelines pointedly decline to differentiate between omega — 3 PUFA and omega — 6 PUFA, and remain quite insistent in urging us to consume lots of all types of PUFA.

Just a small correction, pretty sure Heather (who lost a daughter to stillbirth after being post dates) was not attempting a home birth but rather was insistent in avoiding an induction and do a VBAC.

The bees seem to be rather insistent in wanting to come in.

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 question which is being asked is insistent in all moments and in every moment of our existence: «How do I «stack up» against the way things really «go»?»

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).

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.»

Not exact matches

Tory, a former Rogers Cable CEO and Ontario Tory leader, said it's too soon to tell if desks will be a thing of the past at the Rogers campus in Toronto once Laurence arrives in December, and he may be focused on Rogers» stiff competitive pressures and a federal government insistent on a strong fourth carrier in the wireless market.

Monetary conditions have already tightened in the USA yet the Fed seems insistent on tightening them further.

I agreed to meet Mr. Gorkov because the Ambassador has been so insistent, said he had a direct relationship with the President, and because Mr. Gorkov was only in New York for a couple days.

Tsarnaev's uncle was initially insistent that Tamerlan, who died during a police shootout on April 19, be buried in Massachusetts, but those plans fell through.

If only the father of the lemonade entrepreneur had been less insistent on his sugar mandate, and more aware of the importance of expectations, authenticity and being true to what is deeply ingrained in our culture.

When Harper first ran for prime minister in 2004, his name was so meaningless to Canadians that he sought to pour meaning into it with those issue - based television ads that ended with the oddly insistent «My name is Stephen Harper» tag.

Portugal, like Spain, has been among the euro zone countries that have been most insistent on Greece committing to deep reforms, like other recipients of bailouts in the region have done.

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?

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.

These images became more common — and insistent — in the years following the Civil War.

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....

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.»

He is insistent that piety and greed were not contradictory in the Middle Ages, which is quite correct.

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.

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....

Absent strong public pressure, the Congress may be unable to sustain a critical posture toward the executive branch with its insistent claim that national security requires public trust in secret power.

A reluctant Arafat, pressured by the U.S., showed up for the summit, but resisted Clinton's insistent cajoling that he respond in kind to Barak's expansive compromises.

With the first bars of the prelude» an insistent, agitated gesture in the lower strings» the planks dissolve into a single image of storm clouds.

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.

While this relativity can be interpreted to mean that values are wholly defined by the circumstances of culture and are merely expressions of cultural exigencies, the insistent pressures of the human conscience, oftentimes in contradiction to accepted cultural norms, render this interpretation doubtful.

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.

You don't have to be the most educated person in Laodicea to know that the Greek philosophers were rather insistent upon the importance of maintaining a household in which the man exercises unilateral authority over his wives, children, and slaves.

«In particular, those who saw in Scripture a sanction for slavery were both more insistent on pointing to the passages that seemed so transparently to support their position and more confident in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.&raquIn particular, those who saw in Scripture a sanction for slavery were both more insistent on pointing to the passages that seemed so transparently to support their position and more confident in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.&raquin Scripture a sanction for slavery were both more insistent on pointing to the passages that seemed so transparently to support their position and more confident in decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.&raquin decrying the wanton disregard for divine revelation that seemed so willfully to dismiss biblical truths.»

This is why they have been so insistent on establishing new settlements in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.

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.

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In fairness, Boulding's phrases often do match Augustine's insistent physicality; for example, consider «the innermost marrow of my mind ached,» or «habit's oozy discharge.»

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.

Everyone does something in their life that they know is sin but do anyway because they still like it, including people insistent on your philosophy and that they themselves don't regularly do things they like that are sinful.

The most one could say is that, in bodily sensation, the essences are less clearly defined than those of the distance senses and the dumb intent more insistent.

Those who rejoice in Niebuhr's fulminations against Stalinism, or Russian betrayals of human dignity, usually hear him with only one ear, and fail to listen with equal seriousness to his insistent reminder that the sins we see so clearly in others are likely to be the sins we most subtly replicate in ourselves.

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.

My insistent desires to roll my words together in ways others find disparaging; is my imperfections against writing simplistically for the masses» sakes.

48:11) in the insistent interpretation of Israel's redemption in the divine phrase.