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Example sentences for "insistance"

Lexicographically close words:
insinuation; insinuations; insipid; insipidity; insist; insisted; insistence; insistency; insistent; insistently
  1. Yet, ever and anon, faint gleams of tenderness towards her gentle mother break forth, though soon obscured by the bitter insistance with which her own claims to station, wealth, and luxury assert themselves.

  2. She only aggravates the difficulties and harassments of his life by her callous selfishness, her dull obdurate insistance on all her own claims, her mean deceits and concealments.

  3. The problem was solved, apparently, in a method satisfactory to the Egyptians, as the guide who attended Herodotus called his attention to the building with an insistance which led the historian to pay it special attention.

  4. And it is in this sense that the modern insistance on the idea of Nationalities has value.

  5. His popularity had long since waned, in the face of his rigid insistance on ecclesiastical rules, and it was said "the Brethren alone can understand him, and remain in love with him.

  6. The Society was really an offshoot of the Baptist Church, differing, however, in its non-insistance upon a particular form of baptism.

  7. As regards Greek sculpture, the insistance on archaic forms is becoming, if I may express my own feelings, a perfect bore.

  8. And the chat went on without further insistance on the Princess of Eboli.

  9. But he remained submissive; indeed, the indiscretion that most tempted him, was not any insistance with Mirah, but some kind of appeal to Deronda.

  10. If insistance on them tends to unsettle established systems of belief, self-evident truths are by most people silently passed over; or else there is a tacit refusal to draw from them the most obvious inferences.

  11. This was not precisely the case, but Bertram dared not confess that the insistance upon the duel was not at all according to his wishes, and he thanked Waldheim warmly for his services.

  12. The first great wonder once grasped, it is so natural, in fervour of insistance on the very Godhead, to forget or deny the simple completeness of the very Manhood!

  13. It belonged to the conditions of the first Hellenic bloom of fancy, to suggest without insistance and to realize without emphasis.

  14. These two meet at last together, he after his long wanderings, and she having suffered the insistance of the suitors in her palace; and this is the pathos of the Odyssey.

  15. But you must not wear a betrothal ring, my Tessa, because no one must know you are married," said Tito, feeling some insistance necessary.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insistance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.