insistent的意思|insistent的解释-里氏词典

insistent [in'sistәnt]

a. 坚持的, 迫切的

insistent

[ adj ]

repetitive and persistent

<adj.all>

the bluejay's insistent cry

demanding attention

<adj.all>

clamant needs

a crying need

regarded literary questions as exigent and momentous

insistent hunger

an instant need

Insistent \In*sist"ent\, a. [L. insistens, -entis, p. pr. of
insistere.]
1. Standing or resting on something; as, an insistent wall.
--Sir H. Wotton.

2. Insisting; persistent; persevering.

3. (Zo["o]l.) See {Incumbent}.

The owner was insistent on a square-edge, straight-sided Belfast sink. The kitchen had several low windows which meant it was impractical to put in rows of cabinets.
But the Greek Orthodox appeared insistent that they should have custody of the roof.
He said the Army realizes that as the Cold War thaws and the demands for cost reductions to deal with the budget deficit become more insistent, the Army must become smaller.
One official told reporters that Quayle was interested in the proposal but was insistent on the U.S. position that Noriega must step down at once and preferably leave Panama.
Interpreting the Fed's execution of light but insistent warning purchases yesterday afternoon, participants said that it appears the central bank isn't out to defend a particular level.
Lown said the delegation is making the peace trip after appeals from Egypt, Jordan and a "very insistent" invitation from Iraq.
Dukakis was said to be insistent that party chairman Paul Kirk remain in his post as long as he wants.
Unified as these late pictures are, they are built on strong contrasts: between amorphous blobs and insistent rectangles, between smeary mud colors and planes of searing chromatic intensity.
He cannot cut back elsewhere, because 'members were very insistent that we didn't dilute services to the existing customer base'. He has also needed to fill gaps in the bank's skills mix.
The works of many of these artists, however, with their disease-green and hatchet-cut faces, their bent skeletal limbs and insistent ugliness one may still legitimately find more repulsive than attractive.
The composition is frontal, insistent in its repetition and reinforcement of the architecture, at once formal and descriptive.
It is here that the political undertones, always present in Mr. Oz's work, turn most insistent.
The Spanish company's board was insistent yesterday that the deal would leave intact 'the structure and personality, the style and tradition' that had been behind its success so far.
Both House Speaker Wright and the president, and especially the American people, are correctly insistent that Congress not fall behind on its budget and appropriations schedule and not rely on a mammoth year-end spending bill.
As the royal family falls apart before our curious eyes, these questions are going to become more, not less, insistent. If the Queen is serious in wanting debate on the monarchy, she will be well advised to address the issues in her Christmas message.
The camera's insistent, prying realism has taken the oomph out of Ms. Robinson's dotty, romantic story.
The economy is mired in a deep downturn, the Sagawa Kyubin scandal is not running out of steam and calls for political reform are becoming more insistent.
'We are learning a lot in this way,' says Mr Van Miert. The Commission has also become more insistent that aid can be approved only if it is part of a viable restructuring plan.
With each passing month the talk about recession has grown more insistent. And the stock market crash of last October puncutated those fears with an exclamation point.
Powell was reported to be more insistent than others in the group that a blockade of Iraqi oil required an agreement with Saudi Arabia to allow U.S. military forces there.
In this early period he was already drawing occasionally, and within these tentative beginnings the familiar insistent vision is already evident.
He is no narrow theoretician, no insistent minimalist 'the paint is paint, surface surface man'. The scale of these things is for the most part merely medium-large, by modern standards.
Native Scandinavian audiences maintain a soberer taste, as Elisabeth Soderstrom used to tell us. They resent acting-out and insistent emphases, especially in plain strophic songs - and even more in those by their national composers.
He had been insistent that today's deadline for the start of an Israeli withdrawal should be met.
In the past two years, the costs of competing in the textbook publishing business grew as publishers consolidated, promotional costs climbed and school officials became more insistent on changes in books to suit their areas.
The specter of hyperinflation, public disgust and the looming municipal polls are prompting insistent suggestions that the government may try another "shock plan," involving a price, wage and exchange-rate freeze.
The glitter of modern jewellery, yours for a king's ransom, may have magpie appeal but it is easy to tire of its insistent brand of glamour.
Restless as ever, and with the insistent pulse of Jones replaced by the spreading rhthym of Haynes, 'One Up One Down' sees Coltrane painting his sheets of sound, 'After the Rain' suspending the rhythm to sombre and atmospheric effect.
An Italian newspaper reporter, who has been to Libya before and was particularly insistent about entering the country, was pushed by Libyan airport officials.

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