Sentences with phrase «whose insistence»

But it also doesn't condemn Maisy, whose insistence on privacy stems from unsupportive and controlling parents and from her desire to preserve some of her life for herself.

Henry Ford, Emma Goldman, J. P. Morgan, Evelyn Nesbit, Sigmund Freud, and Emiliano Zapata slip in and out of the tale, crossing paths with Doctorow's imagined family and other fictional characters, including an immigrant peddler and a ragtime musician from Harlem whose insistence on a point of justice drives him to revolutionary violence.

And there was Mr. Spivey, whose insistence that we memorize and recite the preamble to the Constitution was tempered by an understanding that some students would miss class on that crucial recital day simply because of their stage fright.

The same can be said of opponents, whose insistence, in the face of all evidence, that school choice is harmful has led them to ignore its real achievements.

Then there's original director Tinto Brass, whose insistence on filling every last shot of film with some artfully - lit nudity comes straight from the school of mainstream exploitation cinema.

Ed (Ben Chaplin, fresh off our screens as a suave fantasist in «Apple Tree Yard») is an almost fanatically rational (albeit wildly smug) lawyer, whose insistence on dissecting and debating every interaction outside the courtroom — as well as in — infuriates his wife Kitty (the always brilliant Anna Maxwell Martin).

What happens when a womanizing pharmaceutical rep (Jake Gyllenhaal) falls for the free - spirited beauty (Anne Hathaway) whose insistence on a no - strings - attached relationship only masks her deep insecurity?

Just as obviously, his father - in - law, builder Jim Duncan (William Holden), whose insistence on saving money put Simmons up to no good in the first place, is doomed to live with his guilt.

Not exact matches

The question is ridiculous, since yes, the religious leaders (Jews) had a hand in killing Jesus, but the conclusion that modern Jews are responsible is also ridiculous, as well as the insistence on retracting the question by the ADL, whose whole point is to prevent people from blaming modern Jews, not whether the answer is true or not.

Neither did the candidate's recurring insistence that he would, without reservation, act on what is right for America and yet at the same time restore to the center of American policy maintenance of close relations with presumed allies» France, Germany, and Russia» whose desire to cooperate with American interests is less than obvious.

The popular picture of Jesus as one whose purpose was to proclaim truths about himself most often construes loyalty to him as insistence on the truth of those claims.

The connection between freedom and time (and between them and selfhood or personal identity) appears clearly in Sartre's insistence that the good novel present a self shaping an open future, not a puppet ruled by the past whose end is contained in his beginning: «But in order for the duration of my impatience and ignorance to be caught and then moulded and finally presented to me as the flesh of these creatures of invention, the novelist must know how to draw it into the trap, how to hollow out in his book, by means of signs at his disposal, a time resembling my own, one in which the future does not exist.

This is an insistence upon the independence of the object from the individuality, one might say from the distinctive personality, of the occasion whose object it is.

Prize is named for pioneering film writer Louis Delluc (1890 - 1924), whose early insistence that cinema is an art form that can transcend storytelling makes him the spiritual father of French film criticism.

Woody's insistence that he is about to be a millionaire brings out the «true self» in those whose paths they cross.

Steinmann seems to think that the mystery he's weaving is truly engaging, but it's really just a sorry excuse for once again dragging out the specter of Jason Voorhees, whose gory antics are so restrained by the insistence of the MPAA rating system that the film feels like it was edited with one of Jason's bloody - rusty weapons.

Our 2016 Nissan Maxima is proving to be an exceptional boulevard cruiser whose biggest shortcoming is an insistence on clinging to a long - gone marketing department - created reputation.

However, unlike LeWitt whose conceptual works are performed by others, Bartlett's insistence on executing the work herself demonstrates a belief that the very act of mark making is integral to the artist's investigation.

During his years at university, one teacher had influenced him most: the highly independent - minded Margaret Peterson, whose total dedication to her teaching, and insistence on the ethical value of art, were to have a great impact on the artist Elmer Bischoff would be.

In the recent months there has been a high level of media coverage on this topic following the European Court of Justice (ECJ) giving judgement in two cases relating to Muslim women whose employment was terminated because of their insistence on wearing headscarves in the workplace: Achbita and Anor v G4S Secure Solutions; and Bougnaoui and Anor v Micropole.