When once he hits upon one of these popular names, he is carried away for several pages, and insists on calling everybody Thomson.
In the same way, the more the Press insists that a writer is "well-known," the less hope will he have that the public has heard of him.
There is madame overwhelming me with questions respecting the count; she insists upon it that I can tell her his birth, education, and parentage, where he came from, and whither he is going.
The Countess G---- insists upon it that he is a vampire.
Such painters may be able to represent most faithfully the true tints of Nature but not the true impression, for Nature is always expressive of that depth and strength which lies far in and which the painter of “quality” insists to render.
The instructor insistson his looking at nature with his eyes half closed in the hope that he will take the big end of things.
I do not decry that educational policy of to-day which insists that school work should be made as simple and attractive as possible.
One writer insists that faulty work in the first grade is responsible for a large part of the retardation which is bothering us so much to-day.
The author of the Acts insists with satisfaction upon the facts which support his opinions; but we do not believe that he introduces into his narrative facts purely symbolical or deliberately invented.
The chronological order of the visions, on which St. Paul insists with so much precision, leads to the same result.
By another class, he is described as a man with the idolatrous tendency which insists upon sensible tokens, because it has no apprehension of that which is spiritual.
Call upon him at any hour from two to five, he insists on your taking tiffin: and such a tiffin!
It is strange how Tolstoy insists on that detail of the "slightly squinting" eyes; it haunts us as it must have haunted Nekhlúdof.
Tolstoy has never a good word for science; he insists upon considering it as if it were concerned solely with abstract questions, and had no practical bearing upon the lives of men.
Meantime Youkahainen exults because his foe is dead, although his mother insists her son has merely brought woe upon the earth.
Then, after describing the sacrifices which insured his return to Sparta, Menelaus invites Telemachus to tarry with him, although the youth insists he must return home.
This sound, striking Charlemagne's ear, warns him that his army is in danger, although Ganelon insists Roland is hunting.
But Hector so vehemently insists that they maintain the advantage gained, that they camp on the plain, where Jupiter predicts his wife's wish will be granted and her favorite Achilles win great glory.
Although Gunther now assures his wife Siegfried is a king in his own right, she nevertheless insists her brother-in-law and his wife should be invited to Worms, a suggestion which Gunther is only too glad to carry out.
The young lover, however, vehemently insists that Nicolette is fit to be an empress, and vows he will not fight until he has won her for his own.
In reply to the touching pleas of this advocate, the heavenly Father promises the culprits shall be forgiven, provided their repentance is sincere, but insists that meantime they be ejected from Paradise.
But Eve insists that as long as they are together they allow themselves to be distracted from their labors, and proposes that they work independently until the noon hour brings them together to share their simple repast.
In spite of all Alethes and Argantes can say, Godfrey insists upon carrying out his purpose, and, after dismissing these ambassadors with a haughty speech, marches on with his host.
Although Christ insists no such mission has been appointed for him, he adds that, although his reign will never end, it will be only those who can suffer best who will be able to enjoy it.
Although this nobleman pleads with the queen, offering instead to relinquish all he owns and leave her land a beggar, she insists upon his obedience to her commands.
Ganelon, however, againinsists that his step-son is in no danger and is merely coursing a hare.
She insists upon marrying me off-hand, and you have the face of a perfect brigand, but, thank God!
It insists on the thought of one steady divine purpose ever directing the movements of the divine hand.
He insistsas much as anybody can insist upon this great principle, that if we are to dwell with God we must be like God, and that we are like God when we are like Him in righteousness and love.
In the same way every one of the Apostles insists on this truth with a new earnestness.
The most holy adversary of Christ, the father, master, and generalissimo of homicides, insists on having my life.
Perceiving that these words made some impression on the chancellor, the monk hastened to add--"Luther always insists on arguing from the Bible.
The Government insists upon nothing but the external appearance; what lies within is known to God alone.
As he is very desirous of doing justice to Protagoras, he insists on citing his own words,--'What appears to each man is to him.
But Theaetetus insists that they shall proceed to consider the doctrine of rest.
But no, he was precise; her report of him strikes the ear as credible, in spite of the marvel itinsists on our swallowing.
That swinery of a place she insists on visiting is usually crammed.
Dohrn alone, as far as I know, as already pointed out, insists upon the multiple character of the oculomotor nerve.
Of course one cannot expect the French to understand the state of mind which insists upon a volunteer system in the face of the deadliest and most terrible foe.
There is a kind of fatality which overtakes the revolutionist who insists upon an immediate, universal, and violent revolution.
In the statutes of his secret organization, of which I shall speak again later, he insists that "principles, programs, and rules are not nearly as important as that the persons who put them into execution shall have the devil in them.
He always insists on being very familiar, if not affectionate.
Mr. Miller insists that there are bears and bears, as unlike one another in nature and action as so many horses, hogs or goats.
Now what is distinctive of self-sacrifice is that it insists in a somewhat extreme way on this second and rational mode of regard.
Conservatism insists on unity and order; radicalism on wealthy life, diversified powers, particular independence.
While he does full justice to the poetical side of pleasure as an end in itself, [64] he never insists on it as a motive to action.
He insistson this episode, because, says he, the bridge is associated with important events in his life.
Antoninus insists on this continually: God is in man, and so we must constantly attend to the divinity within us, for it is only in this way that we can have any knowledge of the nature of God.
He insists on sitting square on the cactus bunch when there is only one on the whole bench-land.
It is also a special characteristic of the Prophetic Jahveism, that it insists that this idea was destined to be universally recognised in the Hebrew nation itself; and this contributes to the sublimity of the prophetic conception.
It should also be mentioned in this connexion that Knobel insists that the affairs of the interior of Asia were well known to his Jehovist.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "insists" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
