insistency

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

With tireless insistency they pushed plugs for automobiles, refrigerators, railroads, soft drinks, rifles, liquor, diamonds, Venetian blinds, cigars.

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

And its very insistency and sincerity spell success, and are invigorating to boot.

From In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making by George Palmer Putnam

It has no website, and the store's Instagram presence, a fleeting nod to the digital world, is a mere echo of its analog insistencies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 1, 2016

If we could not only admit it with our lips, but really and truly believe it, how our convulsive insistencies, how our antipathies and dreads of each other, would soften down!

From Talks To Teachers On Psychology; And To Students On Some Of Life's Ideals by William James

There were tumultuous yearnings in her voice, innocent insistencies; she seemed to be clamoring for life, the boon that it was right and sweet for her to have.

From Rose MacLeod by Alice Brown

These insistent unwillingnesses, no less than other aesthetic and ethical insistencies, have, it seems to me, to be listened to and respected.

From Memories and Studies by Henry James

The terrible insistencies of society—how severe they are, and cold and inexorable—ghastly towards those who are made of wax and not of stone.

From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy