insistent

Modifying Another Word

• equally: Labor sources were equally insistent that Mr McConnell would not rise to the bait.
• quite: From what I was told, Lane was quite insistent on not having a big deal made of his death.
• increasingly: The Inland Revenue will make increasingly insistent requests for payment eventually leading to court action.
• particularly: The Blair government was particularly insistent in emphasizing this.
• so: Why are the Greeks so insistent on getting them back?
• too: Alas, his ontological presence was all too insistent.

Preposition: on

• point: Adam Smith was far less insistent on these points.
• need: He was very insistent on the need for priests to be close to their people.
• fact: Speilberg was insistent on the fact that he wanted the film to be shown at eye level whenever the scenes were in the water.

Modifies a noun

• waterfall: Hire a local in the caribbean an insistent waterfall.
• rhythm: This has a gently insistent rhythm during the first, quieter part.
• beat: The inane music coming from the bars with the insistent beat marching the drinkers to oblivion.
• demand: Several days later, under the pressure of insistent demands, he finally acceded to liberate the pictures.
• voice: In fact, some insistent voices are doing just that.
• request: The Inland Revenue will make increasingly insistent requests for payment eventually leading to court action.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: It's ultimately your decision, but don't be put off by an agent who seems insistent to show your home for you.
• become: During the last three thousand years human impact on the face of the earth has become ever more insistent.
• grow: In fact, as news of the Ugandan success has spread, the defense of condoms has grown more insistent.
• remain: Mr. Doyle remained insistent in his belief that no children should be sent to Canada under Miss Rye's present system of emigration.
• get: Joe, my eldest, who was 31 then, kept asking for money and he was getting really insistent.