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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

If the offer was made with noticeable insistency, he shook his head and distorted the features of his face until he resembled an irritated ape.

From The Goose Man by Porterfield, Allen Wilson