Sentences with phrase «insistent upon»

The painters around here are insistent upon oil, but the fumes are so strong for weeks and I have little ones to worry about!

Niall and Ari both seem to have much in common: very smart, very comfortable with and insistent upon being their own unique selves, confident in ways Daniel is not, and yet like their father, very loving and good with children.

We're not sure why the company is so insistent upon this, but we suspect it's so Lamborghini can't say «Ha!

There are a couple of hallucinatory sequences that don't quite work, and the score by Paul Mills comes swooping in, insistent upon being inspirational in a way that feels like unnecessary underlining.

Steven was (rightfully) insistent upon the two most comfy ones facing the windows and so, voila!

All the other bits of the story started to fall into place: why Mitch couldn't concentrate that day, why he hadn't wanted to stop for food, and why he was so insistent upon getting down to the beach before sunset.

When we're so insistent upon heralding happiness as the only thing to pursue, we set ourselves up for intolerance to sadness, fear, and those feelings that are even more painful.

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.»

Sooner or later, while observing others eating, kids get curious then they eventually they will become insistent upon eating food.

It seems not a little strange that the faith which is most insistent upon the principle of Ahimsa and will not take the life of the most humble living thing, makes a definite place for putting an end to one own life.

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.

Unlike Marx and others who tried to turn socialism into a science and thought they knew what would happen, Rorty's religion is radically open to, adamantly insistent upon, the new — making possible a life of «pure, joyous hope.»

Not exact matches

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.

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.

In prior posts, I refuted claims made by you in Mr. Spencer video regarding whether Mohammed (Peace and Blessings be upon him) and you conveniently ignored those refutations (even though you were insistent that I can't refute even one of those claims).

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.

It attempts to redefine the Christian message in all its fullness and truth, with insistent and repeated stress upon the kingdom.