The tree-frogs piped the spirit of this premonition to him with a monotonous insistency that filled the boy's soul with an alien, restive turbulence not comprehensible.
The vision of the absent girl who had gone out of his life and carried with her every fibre of joy that had hitherto woofed his existence--now stood before him with a vividness and insistency that eclipsed all previous visitations.
A night divided into ecstasy and torture, and above the chaos of his soul, the voice of Belle-Ann ever rippled with the monotone and insistency of running water.
The nous fitly represents Christ, who is the Sapientia Dei--which Abaelard sets forth; but then with even greater insistency he identifies the Holy Spirit with the world-soul.
But if the intellectual side of man pressed upon the absolutism of the standard of salvation, more belligerent was the insistency of love--not of the Crucified.
The titles given by Abaelard to his various treatises are indicative of the critical insistency of his nature.
Nor indeed, as often happens, did the multitude of riches, or the insistency of clamouring crowds, nor any disgust otherwise coming over him, ever turn his mind from this noble employment of leisure.
Re-entering his monastery on the Coelian, he became its abbot; but was drawn out again, and made pope by acclamation and insistency in the year 590.
Only Anselm's were not evoked by the exigency of actual controversy as much as by the insistency of the eleventh-century mind, and the need it felt of some adjustment regarding certain problems.
Its insistency made one oblivious of the great heat.
For the same forces that have obtained the surrender of the autocratic principle in British India, may demand with equal insistency its surrender throughout the Native States.
The present buildings are for the most part barely 200 years old, and remarkable chiefly for the insistency with which the lingam and the bull, the favourite symbols of Shiva, repeat themselves in shrine after shrine.
He spoke of these things to Susan Bates with such an increasing frequency and insistency as almost to transfer the rack of them from his own brain to hers.
Having set forth these principles, he proposed to class the phenomena of human life in two series of distinct results, demanding, with the ardent insistency of conviction, a special analysis for each.
The King's terrible reply to Montmorency's insistency is well known.
Cruel indeed when the hardness and insistencygoes to the forging of fetters for emotion and ignorance.
The song came in little insistent trills and quaverings, and quaint recurring cadences, which matched the insistency of the rhymes.
