He spoke with great insistence of the need for reform. the insistence of the crashing waves
Recent Examples on the WebTo the daughter, her mother’s insistence that life in America has been fine and good is a delusion.WIRED, 14 Sep. 2022 Amid public recriminations and revelations of infidelity, the Prince and Princess of Wales formally split in 1992 and, at the queen’s insistence, divorced in 1996. Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 8 Sep. 2022 Pursued with a blithe insistence that all would be better in this best of all possible worlds, that agenda helped seed the social chaos and despair that have been such fertile ground for the right. Kim Phillips-fein, The Atlantic, 6 Sep. 2022 Assembling, at the Queen's insistence, for the 11 a.m. service at Balmoral's Craithie Church, the family, including the 97-year-old Queen Mother, appeared shocked but calm. People Staff, Peoplemag, 31 Aug. 2022 At Frankfurter’s insistence, the court let the law—titled the Racial Integrity Act—stand unaltered. After Brown and Brown II, Frankfurter’s role on the court grew steadily more marginal. John Fabian Witt, The New Republic, 26 Aug. 2022 Alas: newborn baby, job at Bard, parents’ death, wife’s insistence. Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2022 Brown, like Cheney, said the race is about the existential choice facing the Republican Party: between embracing Trump's endless insistence the last presidential race was stolen from him -- or moving on. Isabella Murray, ABC News, 12 Aug. 2022 Last night, Stone lent a hand on drums, even taking a brief solo at Primus frontman Les Claypool’s insistence. Jonathan Cohen, SPIN, 11 Aug. 2022 See More