insistency

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The camera’s medium close-ups rub their faces onto the screen with an insistency that makes you feel as overly familiar with them as they do with each other.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2010

It was to answer this insistency that industrial chemists met at Pittsburgh last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I was looking all the time for a yellow light, a yellow light, a yellow light," he chanted with desperate insistency.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thomas Alva Edison last week again knuckled to the U. S. insistency that a celebrity be a pundit on all manner of things.

From Time Magazine Archive

All hypnotic methods," he read, "have one thing in common, and that is the diversion of attention from the insistency of external surroundings....

From The Tyranny of the Dark by Garland, Hamlin