Crossword-Solution: INSISTENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Insistence | n. | The quality of insisting, or being urgent or pressing; the act of dwelling upon as of special importance; persistence; urgency. |
We have 18 clues for the answer “INSISTENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| unwillingness to bend | 1 answer |
| The quality of being demanding. | 1 answer |
| Repeated demands | 1 answer |
| Pressure, of a sort | 2 answers |
| Assertiveness | 2 answers |
| pertinacity | 6 answers |
| Urgency | 10 answers |
| CONTINUAL AND PERSISTENT DEMANDS | 11 answers |
| Assertion | 36 answers |
| Route | 60 answers |
| iron will | 65 answers |
| Certificate | 66 answers |
| APPLICATION ___ | 68 answers |
| Warrant | 70 answers |
| Edict | 71 answers |
| Dedication | 71 answers |
| "__ Road" | 81 answers |
| will | 87 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with INSISTENCE (5)
With frenzied insistence I continued to press the little button which should have sent us racing out into space, but still the vessel refused to budge.
The result being that the scent of their pursuers was borne away from them, so they proceeded upon their way in total ignorance of the fact that tireless trackers but little less expert in the mysteries of woodcraft than themselves were dogging their trail with savage insistence.
For Strakencz urged on me the need of a speedy marriage, and my own inclinations seconded him with such terrible insistence that I feared for my resolution.
Randy, at the insistence of the medical students, was moved out of the medical radiology course and into an undergraduate nutrition course.
They were monuments of laborious, elaborate neatness, the trite moralities and ready-made aphorisms of the philanthropists and publicists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence.
Quotes with INSISTENCE (3)
When I say that I am convinced of these things I speak with too much pride. Far off, like a perfect pearl, one can see the city of God. It is so wonderful that it seems as if a child could reach it in a summer's day. And so a child could. But with me and such as me it is different. One can realise a thing in a single moment, but one loses it in the long hours that follow with leaden feet. It is so difficult to keep 'heights that the soul is competent to gain.' We think in ete…
I made a sorry face in response to such strong insistence, but I couldn’t believe him. Fantasies were exactly that..…..fantasies. Whimsy. Wishes. Mere castles in the sky without foundation or substance. Dreams didn’t come true. To believe so would be to believe falsely, to surrender to madness, to give in to an unreliable hope that would crush me once again as it always, always did!
Because everybody who has ever lost their way in life has felt the nagging insistence of that question. At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze, and I dont want us to forget Alaska, and I don't want to forget that even when the material we study seems boring, we're trying to und3erstand how people answered that question and the question each of you posed in your papers--how different traditions have come to terms with what Chip, in his final, called 'people's rotten lots in life.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1960–2008).