Sentences with phrase «strong insistence»

In 1906 the critic Philip Hale remarked that he perceived a «fine insanity» in the work of Marsden Hartley, by which the artist took him to mean «a strong insistence upon the personal interpretations of the subjects chosen.»

Indeed, the emphasis was in quite the contrary direction, for there was a strong insistence upon the necessity for a learned ministry.

Here once again there is a remarkable similarity between certain emphases in Whitehead as well as in other process - thinkers and the strong insistence of contemporary existentialism on the centrality of the «subjective» feelings and of self - awareness in human experience.

It was only after strong insistence that I succeeded in having it removed.»

Today, when I get a very strong insistence to not do something, I know I have a buyer.

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In the same way that Bach spoke of his mother as a strong female influence in his life, and Tory credited her success in part to her fathers insistence that she could do whatever she wanted to, Leroux also praised her parents for their guidance.

But I also write with a strong sense of the Calvinist tradition's striking awareness of the ingrained and pervasive nature of original sin and of that same tradition's insistence that our salvation is worked out in the publicly responsible realm of city and state.

If the doctrine of sin received a strong emphasis in his writings, it was because he was attempting to save modern Christianity and culture from the sentimentality into which it had fallen «by its absurd insistence upon the natural goodness of man.

These men were largely ignored, but later on, male - centered grammarians took up the cause, and insistence on the use of «he» became a strong issue among grammarians in the early 19th century.

Whitehead is seeing that if you are having a radical view, starting from events and flying to get space - time, with his insistence on sense - awareness and durations for the strong notion of an event, this is going to affect everything all along the line.

Having just given birth to my second, I have very strong feelings about what I do see is the fanatical insistence upon nursing and rooming in by various consultants.

There are strong hints here of the conservative philosopher Roger Scruton's insistence on the centrality of the experience of home to English identity: «England was first and foremost a place — though a place consecrated by custom.»

The decision to have a separate bill follows Nick Clegg's insistence that it must be accompanied by the «strongest possible safeguards».

Referendums evoke strong emotions — encouraged by their division into two binary camps and the insistence that every fact or argument be corralled into one or the other.

With the rulebook's insistence on close adherence to production specifications, the Corvette race cars have strong links to their showroom counterparts.

I would say the game's insistence on having so many characters probably had an adverse effect on a strong narrative.

While American Pop was indebted to its British predecessor's insistence that any creative pursuit is worthy of aesthetic consideration, Crow demonstrates that this inclusive attitude also had strong American roots.

His strong association with artists, many of whom he had encountered at Corsham School of Art, led to an insistence that the art and the creative artist should remain the centre of attention, while recognising the importance of education and interpretation in bringing work to the public.

Schiller's mockery of the Amazon Echo and the Google Home, along with his insistence that voice assistants will still need to be paired with screens, sent strong signals that Apple will indeed release its own smart speaker soon.