| 单词 | insistent |
| 例句 | Jean was solicitous, but he was not pleading or insistent; if anything, he was fraternal and lighthearted. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He wasn’t angry or even disappointed with them—he accepted that all humans had weaknesses—but he was insistent that everybody take their medicine, even if that meant someone from the clinic tracking them down. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Each time it did so it was louder, more insistent. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z But the success of Los Alamos seemed to make Teller even more insistent about a second laboratory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Camp rumors were insistent that Hitler’s government was starting to collapse and Russian troops were moving toward Germany. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “Why are you so insistent on me staying home?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z But today he was too insistent, beckoning me like he was some kind of Mafia boss and I was supposed to hustle right over to him. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z His fingers find the hem of my shirt, then slip under it, warm and insistent. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The engine’s whistle blows mournfully, a distant sound that somehow cuts through the insistent buzzing in my ears. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Bliss put him off, but Garfield was insistent. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z There’s something in his voice, in his gaze, in his whole being, something hungry and insistent, and it’s untethering me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z The cow let out another bellowing complaint, the most insistent so far. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z The thin cry burst out again, wiry, insistent “Is it a man?” he cried again, “tell me at least this—is it a man?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The head moved from side to side in the pale glow of the light bulb, as though denying some insistent voice which I could not hear. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mom was insistent that somewhere out there, just waiting to be found, was an ancient object that might help them defeat the Sleeper once and for all. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The dog, his barking more insistent now, ran past the children and around to the back of the house. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Also there is something about where he has come from and why, where he is going and why that encourages in him an insistent, deliberate recklessness. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then came voices—the conductor’s, deferential, apologetic, and a woman’s—insistent and voluble. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Most jailhouse gossip quickly makes its way to the inmates, but officers were uniformly insistent about keeping them ignorant about the story of the Playhouse Four, as the group had come to be known. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not quite sure what I ought to say. He’s so very insistent about seeing Mr. de Winter.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The calls of conch shells and hollow cow horns were attempting to catch up to the insistent rhythm. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z So insistent, that after a while Helen found herself going out to have a good look herself. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z They all talked at once, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires become words. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I worried that in this new condition he might not tolerate another male in his territory, his night territory in particular, especially if his insistent cries went unanswered, as surely they would. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Sohrab said something to the other boys, in Farsi again, and they answered, more insistent. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He was mostly quiet and didn’t have that insistent hunger for attention about him. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I sat until the sky went dark and my stomach growled, low and insistent, and I realized that I didn’t have to sit here any longer. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z She reached a large wooden door at the end of the hall, and the tug in her navel grew more pronounced, more insistent. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Their branches scratched against the side of the building, insistent, as if to get our attention. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z He kisses me again, more insistent this time, his hands squeezing my waist. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z It was made of gray stone, grotesquely solid, jammed hard against the wooden side of the house, with the insistent veranda holding it there. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He touches my face, his thumb skimming my cheekbone, and his eyes are on mine, intense and insistent. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She had dreamed that same dream many times over the course of the winter, but in recent days, it had become more insistent. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he recognizes Doktè Paul and he’s not so insistent on his price after Farmer points out, “And if you get sick, I won’t ask you for a hundred dollars.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I dropped the subject, for I knew that once my mother had said: “You’re still too young ...” I would get nowhere no matter how insistent I became. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout the long history of the family the insistent repetition of names had made her draw some conclusions that seemed to be certain. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z We all go, though, following her down the hallway to the insistent ring of the bell. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The knocking on the door grew more insistent. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z It breathed itself into my being and held on to my heart with a simple, insistent force. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z She was insistent now, and Pilate surrendered her judgment to Reba’s. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z She has that look on her face, the insistent one that I hate, that makes her look exactly like Papa. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The throb pulsed on, insistent, and he saw hundreds of black men and women beating drums with their fingers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z This violin had a piercing, insistent sweetness of tone, almost like a baby crying. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Jinx was more insistent this time, hoping Ned would catch on. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z But a different reply roared to life inside him, loud, insistent, and unwelcome. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I tried to convince him what I wanted more than anything else was for him to forget all about it — especially since nothing had actually happened to me — but he remained insistent. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Do you know what I mean?” she said in this insistent voice. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The white girls were insistent about me asking Maylene to be my valentine. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z And just when I think he’s lost the strength to respond, his voice comes out sounding even more insistent. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The knock came again, more insistent this time. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z “Dear Flora,” said Flora’s mother again in a louder, more insistent voice. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z But I let her talk, let her voice counter the unspoken, insistent ones that emanate from my broken mind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “No way,” he said, rattling the paper and then jumping up at the black phone’s insistent ring, “and that’s final.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Smith saw the bucked knees, the insistent pressure of ribs under skin, the weariness of the body. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Dell Duke was insistent: "You have to go. My next appointment is here!" Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z There was no escaping, none, from these spongy intangible fingers that pulled him on, on, on, irresistibly insistent, coaxing, maternal. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z After he died and Mommy remarried, my stepfather, Hunter Jordan, seemed to pick up where my father left off, insistent on education and church. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He argued, but she was so insistent, that he went and got her mother. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In reality, the only thing that could be isolated in the rocky paragraphs was the insistent hammering on the word equinox, equinox, equinox, and the name of Alexander von Humboldt. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Outside the windows, a steady roar was interrupted by sharp sirens or the insistent crash and clang of garbage cans, the whining motors of cars, and the faint sound of babies crying. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He held the capsule out to me, insistent. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z But Helmuth was insistent, saying, “I just want the German people to think. Don’t you think everybody in Hamburg is entitled to know the truth? They don’t all have a radio.” Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She felt the pendant swinging from her neck, a tiny but insistent pull. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Henry takes a step back from her as if there were a weapon in her empty hand, but Jacqui’s wriggling fingers are insistent. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Shimmers of heat traced patterns on her skin, insistent as a lover’s hand. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z So when Molly left the building that day through what she hadn’t even realized was a theft-detection gate, a loud, insistent beeping brought the head librarian, Susan LeBlanc, swooping over like a homing pigeon. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z That same insistent pull she’d felt in the zoo had guided her through the lemongrass fields as the zoo’s towering brick walls grew distant, and the city of Lkossa’s outer slums rose to meet her. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “Is someone there?” came the voice again, insistent. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He recites it all in a low, insistent voice. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was not unpleasant or frightening; it was merely quietly insistent. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The tapping grows insistent, and I turn, intending to tell off the Cadet. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z I did so, clumsily at first, but under his insistent commands, I began to grasp his method. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The alarm beeped its insistent warning, and I silenced it with Jesse’s birthday. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Faint, almost tentative at first, but more insistent when I didn’t answer right away. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Now she understood why the Uncle had been so insistent on killing Beefy. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The cough I’d been cultivating over the past few days was more insistent now. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z After about four minutes the telephone rang shrill and insistent, that irritating, monotonous note of a long-distance call. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The particular morning I’m talking about, it was really foggy, and I knew the field would be soaking, but Tommy had been insistent we go there for a walk. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z IT beckoned him, lilting and insistent; delicate music, played by delicate instruments that he could not identify, with one rippling, bell-like phrase running through it in a gold thread of delight. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Keith acted as waiter and was most insistent that we eat plenty. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z It had kept Cari busy, and Naomi had managed to deflect her increasingly insistent questions about their mother. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z They were insistent with him at the tea party downstairs. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “You have a new friend,” she says, her voice low and insistent. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z At that moment, as if in agreement, the bells of the Black Protocol began to sound, loud and insistent. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “I told her I wasn’t sure if you wanted to cook or that you were even ready yet. But you know your abuela—stubborn and insistent.” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z A close look into my face and he could read the insistent question. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t imagine why she was so insistent that I hurry home. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I head to the eighth floor with the insistent nurse. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z And across the wide silence of the bay came the sound of their engines, tiny but clear, an insistent mosquito whine. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it’s coming from the back door instead of the front door, and is even more insistent than before. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z At the same time, the drumbeat of ominous headlines emanating from Europe had begun to grow steadily louder and more insistent that spring. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was bitingly cold up here, and the wind pulled at his clothes like an insistent lover. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I was pretty sure I had actually changed the Band-Aid right after waking up, just before I brushed my teeth, but the thought was insistent. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z “Let me help you,” he whispered again, and the insistent demand wormed its way into my brain. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z He was insistent: “Oh please, Basil, you must tell me all you know. It was Methuselah’s life-work trying to find that sword. I must continue for his sake.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The air was close; people were crying; there was an insistent buzz which came in close to my ear and then receded. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Today he will not even respond to her insistent knocking. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Why, yes. Zeta-1 was rather insistent something was set improperly.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z We also debated heading down to Camp Two that afternoon, but Taske was insistent that we not descend from the Col while Hall was marooned on the South Summit. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z It was a cold, soundless night, black as obsidian, and Ben could only follow the sound of Sammy’s insistent plunge toward the ocean. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His dark eyes are insistent as he says, “Run.” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Of course after that they were more insistent and unmanageable than ever. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Her eyes grew wider, more full of horror, or loathing, and she didn’t seem to be aware of him or of Lyra anymore, just of that insistent whisper through the coal silk at her side. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He wouldn’t be so insistent if sex weren’t involved. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Finn moved to take one end so they could carry it to the truck, but Roza was faster and more insistent. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z Celia maintains that no amount of money is worth such an excruciating experience, but Hector is insistent, and so they continue to travel, levitating tables and producing phantom knocking on all manner of well-papered walls. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There was a deep, insistent tugging, as though someone were trying to pull the very core of her out through her mouth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A preacher from the Seminary began a low, insistent, theological argument with a young lieutenant, back and forth, back and forth, the staff listening with admiration at the lovely words. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I snuggled my face into her neck while Mom continued to rock and hold me, still singing her quietly insistent song: No, you're not. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The memorable thing about him was how insistent he was that he'd been wrongly convicted. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z The missing gold, the wine Gebu wanted but never drank, the grinning Babylonian with his sharp glance and his soft, insistent questions, all fitted into a picture too clear to doubt. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z It was a low, insistent knock thumping through the house that finally forced me out of bed. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Ugwu preferred Jomo’s solemn ways and false stories, but Harrison, with his insistent bad English, was mysteriously full of knowledge of things that were foreign and different. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Her hair was combed over one ear, a hairstyle I’ve never liked, and as she walked she gave off a terrible musky scent that floated on the air, as insistent as a moan. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, the film's going to be black-and-white, so no skin off my back, but she was insistent and said knowing she didn't look her best was interfering with her creative output. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The only place in Idaho Jesse was insistent on showing me was their clubhouse—Mike Brown’s classroom. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Their insistent voices converged into the one pounding sound of dance dance dance. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z But he was insistent. “lust come over here.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a peaceful protest; orderly and insistent, like the ticking of a clock. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z “I knocked, but you did not hear me. I pray you, forgive me this intrusion. My business cannot wait,” she says, her voice both quiet and insistent. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Sahara's tone is insistent, and a girl beside us gives us a curious look. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z But there were new threads now, tugging and insistent, which tied her just as firmly to the Tucks. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z A cluster of birds flew up from the nearby trees, hitting the sky at the same moment I began beating out a faster, more insistent rhythm. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z But this new hunger baffled me, scared me, made me angry and insistent. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Me, I said exactly one word: my first name, when a particularly insistent jerk, played by Andrew Garman, kept asking what it was. Review: ‘I’m Not the Stranger You Think I Am,’ Where Theater Meets Confessional 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z A repetitive major third played as a falling or rising interval is the insistent, jokey main motif of “Motormouth.” Ode to Meredith Monk From American Composers Orchestra 2014-11-23T05:00:00Z Offended by Tate’s tardiness, Vidal abandons the interview and glides away, stranding the reporter between the tinkling temptations of his minibar and the insistent goading of Villechaize to stay out all night. “My Dinner with Hervé” Is a Testament to Peter Dinklage’s Charisma 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z Retro-futuristic, erector-set contraptions, Hope's towers are specific and physically insistent in their solutions, however vast or absurd the problems they address. Daunting power of the hand, mind and machine by Matt Hope at Ace Gallery 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Instead, Prince’s keening voice and an insistent rhythm track contributed to the mood of emotional desolation: Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z He's also cheerless: absolutely insistent on detailing all that is wrong with the world. John Murry: 'We praise self-destruction' 2013-06-04T18:00:01Z Even the man can't remember, insistent though he is on the past encounter. Last Year in Marienbad: return to the ice palace 2011-07-14T13:00:01Z The rhythmically insistent cello line hovers for long stretches over a single note; midway through the piece, it seems to be grunting fearsomely while the other instruments do the heavy lifting. Music Review: Sounds of a New World, a Few Years On 2011-03-29T21:50:16Z The chanting built, the drumming grew more insistent — this was the Friday evening dhikr, the rhythmic repetition of God’s name designed to bring the supplicant closer to direct contact with the almighty. Explorer: Pyramids by the Nile. Egypt? No, Sudan. 2012-10-05T15:50:42Z Full of indelible songs with firm, insistent hooks, it drew on a range of influences, from punk to dancehall to new wave. Music Review: Santigold at Music Hall of Williamsburg - Review 2012-01-18T15:29:25Z Fox News was most insistent on warning its viewers not to draw too many conclusions from exit polls, yet conversely spent the most time taking direction from them. Media taking care in early coverage 2012-11-07T03:33:17Z However, the demands of international justice and an insistent daughter force him into memoir mode, which means propelling the play into a sustained flashback, set in the Khmer Rouge era of the 1970s. Review: Partying With the Khmer Rouge in ‘Cambodian Rock Band’ 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z He’s insistent that my friend’s presence would invade his/our space during an important time. I Want My Best Friend in the Delivery Room. My Husband Definitely Does Not. 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Seated on a terrace overlooking the Mediterranean, Mr. Singh told his story quickly in a soft, insistent voice. From India, a Tale Shaped by a Director's Memories of an Assassination 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z And in the Cage works, he searched out the mystical textures and gently insistent rhythms, the bits of fanfares and flourishes. At the Piano, and Under the Hood 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z The “Dance of the Adolescents,” with its insistent repeated chords, was held in check at first, to haunting effect, allowing the music to build inexorably in sound and intensity. Music Review: Philharmonic Opens Season at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-09-20T16:22:20Z Salinger was, then, what writers were once supposed to be: self-effacing, a bit mysterious, insistent that it was his work rather than his personality that mattered. Salinger: a burger-lover in the rye 2011-01-27T23:00:01Z The more insistent she is, the more vehemently he pushes her off. Dance Review: ‘Summer’s Different,’ at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theater 2013-04-30T21:02:54Z Their grain is thick, insistent, a veil of psychic soot. In her photos, Ishiuchi Miyako focuses on the dynamics, tensions of postwar Japan 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z It echoes the stubborn wail of an insistent toddler warned against touching a hot stove. Images of Muhammad and a Texas cartoon show's sketchy purpose 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Decorative patterning, considered a minor mode in the West, is major here, an insistent, expressive end in itself. Art Review: Shows at Asia Society and N.Y.U. Grey Art Gallery 2013-09-05T21:50:26Z A train horn sounds in the background, insistent and very close. You’re the kids who robbed us: Our strange online encounter with our burglars 2014-04-12T23:00:00Z Mr. Ax’s reading was fast, fiery and insistent, a small drama that found a gentle resolution only at the very end. Music Review: A Reading of Schubert, Both Fiery and Fresh 2011-02-28T06:30:06Z This 10-minute duo is filled with passages in which either the cello or the violin provides insistent accompanimental figures as the other breaks loose in elegiac, fitful melodic flights. Music Review: A Cozy Chamber Concert Buoyed by Lapping Water 2011-04-18T21:55:54Z Then her voice was piping and insistent, and she plucked harp patterns with the steady, relentless momentum she learned from West African music. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2010-02-22T13:57:00Z When she wakes, though, it is to a pawing and insistent violence. Review | ‘O Beautiful’ is an intricate tale of identity and belonging in a divided America 2021-11-17T05:00:00Z The duo is signed to Fueled by Ramen, an imprint probably best known for putting out the work of Fall Out Boy, and they share an insistent puerility and melodic flamboyance with their pop-punk labelmates. The Slippery Appeal of the Biggest New Band in America 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Others scamper around him, laying on hands and making odd, insistent shapes with their limbs. Review: A People-Pleasing Choreographer Honors a Complicated Parent 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z The insistent pulse of the theme tune, coupled with Leonard Cohen’s menacing growl, is impossibly seductive. True Detective's opening credits: a thing of beauty (that goes on a bit too long) 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z For the Reich, the players tackled insistent syncopations and interlocking motifs with seeming ease. Phillips Camerata and guests perform a trio of Washington premieres At first it’s tentative — chords and pauses, the clatter of a rainstick — but other, more ominous sounds crowd in: distorted guitar, insistent drums, rumbly low arpeggios. Miley Cyrus and Brandi Carlile’s Raw Duet, and 9 More New Songs 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Eventually, house evolved into lusher forms while maintaining its insistent pulse. Honey Dijon Steps Up From Dance Music’s Underground 2022-11-22T05:00:00Z Now, though, the problem she needs to fix isn’t insistent bill collectors or derelict slumlords. Trump has spurred hundreds of women to run for office. Guess what? Some are Republican. 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Sivan’s breathy vocals dance atop an insistent beat and house-inspired piano riff, while a chorus of deep male voices chant the song’s infectious hook: “I feel the rush, addicted to your touch.” Billie Eilish’s Forlorn ‘Barbie’ Ballad, and 10 More New Songs 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z I felt flickers of resentment, and even a little shame, at Michael's diagnosis and insistent tone. Play it again: conquering Chopin's Ballade No 1 2013-01-12T06:30:01Z The first was the insistent finger wagging one now encounters that the only way to spend quality time with one’s children is to disengage from technology. This Life: Our Plugged-in Summer 2011-08-12T20:39:56Z Eddie’s insistent affection and optimism is comically at odds with Ani’s dry deadpan. ‘Cost of Living’ Review: Worth Its Weight in Gold 2022-10-03T04:00:00Z The insistent repetition drills the words into your brain, whether or not you care to have them there. The most hated man in art-house cinema 2010-05-07T20:15:00Z Mr. Vedder looked out at the crowd and saw “100 percent activists,” and echoed the insistent, can-do, online optimism that Global Citizen promotes. Review: Global Citizen Festival, Including Beyoncé and Pearl Jam, Mixes Music and Activism 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z It’s the opposite of an insistent, expressive self, which characterized male-dominated Abstract Expressionism. Yayoi Kusama at the Broad: Lots of mirrors, not so much artistic reflection 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z To scratch this insistent itch, he visits a company called Rekall, which promises interstellar vacations without the risk and expense of boarding a shuttle. Total Recall at 30: a thrilling reminder of Paul Verhoeven at his best 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z Pathos and grief become fear and horror, overlaid with an insistent sensual charge. Don't Look Now and Roeg's red coat 2011-01-18T20:30:03Z A faceoff between two dancers whose feet drummed the same insistent rhythm. A fever dream come to life in ‘Poor People’s TV Room’ 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z After spotting a glimmer of stardom, she could be insistent. Marion Dougherty, Hollywood Star-Maker, Dies at 88 2011-12-08T04:59:31Z With its insistent voiceover from Browning, the sense is that Legend was made for America. 'The Krays were glamorous guys' 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z When I saw Coates speak last winter at the University of Michigan, the mostly white audience was insistent on asking him for a grand solution to racism, but Coates politely refused to answer those questions. Ta-Nehisi Coates and a Generation Waking Up 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z For me, there was also the press of time, which suddenly felt insistent and rushed. What the Caribou Taught Me About Being Together, and Apart 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Ditto an insistent, pinprick-like solo by Wayne Shorter, who joined Hancock, saxophonist Jimmy Heath and vibraphonist Stefon Harris, among others, for a sprightly take on Lionel Hampton's "Flying Home." Bill Clinton is lauded at all-star jazz gala. But he left his sax at home. 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z I sat next to a pilot who patiently explained the intricacies of aircraft weight-balancing to me as we landed in Seattle’s insistent fog. A Seattleite’s Las Vegas itinerary for people who think they hate Las Vegas 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z And Garrison's production keeps it in the air, like a fine, insistent mist. Strawberry Theatre Workshop revisits the 1979 'Cloud Nine' 2011-07-21T19:35:06Z They are very insistent when they say "we're not the new Beatles". 'We're not the new Beatles' 2013-06-15T10:53:14Z A handful of relatives sat amid rows of empty folding chairs and the insistent sound of cicadas. My Search for Lost Time in a Slice of Jewish Rye 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z Amusingly, the main choice of weapons isn’t swords but drums that opponents beat — with insistent, galloping fingers — to create a powerful, mystical sonic force. Review: ‘Legend of the Mountain,’ a Magical Mystery Marathon in Ancient China 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z I politely refused several times, explaining that I would really prefer just to enjoy the party and not perform, but they were so insistent that I finally caved. Perspective | Miss Manners: Pianist wants to enjoy gala, not become its entertainment 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Each dancer in a different way looked alone in a wilderness: deracinated, insistent, limited. Review: ‘Citizen,’ Reggie Wilson’s Bridge From African-American History to the Postmodern 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z That’s one of the tricky parts of Ibsen’s text — the long list of characters, the insistent verse, the constant setting shifts, the frequent and abrupt dips into the absurd and surreal. Review: ‘Gnit’ Seeks Itself in a Mist of Magic and Mischief 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z I’m tempted to tell him to use paper plates, if he’s so insistent he’s not on the hook, but it does seem unfair. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Her partner uses a new job as an excuse to dump all the chores on her 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Moore is famously controlling with the illustrators of his comics work, insistent on his own system—as if wary, in Blake’s phrase, of being “enslav’d by another Mans.” A Party in a Lunatic Asylum 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z And Mr. Williams has pushed toward a more natural, less insistent strain of jazz modernity, in his writing and in the metabolism of his own group, Sound Effect. Review: Ben Williams Steps Up on ‘Coming of Age’ 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z The unruffled disposition masks the insistent specificity of his vision. Front Row: The Dries Van Noten Exhibition in Paris 2014-03-06T00:30:31Z Allred spoke fast and loud, insistent she get the words out before being derailed with a quip. Seeing Allred: the life of the outspoken equal rights lawyer 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z Mercury Rev found a psychedelic haze in “Evening of Light”; Yeasayer brought an insistent synthesizer hook to “Janitor of Lunacy.” Critic’s Notebook: Two John Cale Programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-20T23:06:32Z My 4-year-old generally wakes up between 6 and 6:30 with an immediate, loud, insistent request that someone play with him. Perspective | When a young son is an early riser, but a parent is not 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z The pine fragrance drifts through the gallery, along with the choral track, insistent and incantatory, of a video installation in a small walk-in room. Allison Janae Hamilton’s Spirit Sources 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z The noise, the stranger, the Facebook add, whatever it is, it’s insistent. TV Keeps the Faith With Supernatural Procedurals. Again. 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z He was insistent, so instead of letting my fears stop him, I helped him practice over and over. 4 Ways to Help Your Kid Learn to Suck it Up 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Even as “The Little Match Girl Passion” becomes more familiar, it retains its capacity to grip and haunt with its icy web of spare lines, insistent repetitions and uneasy dissonances. Music Review: David Lang?s Music at Zankel Hall 2012-01-31T22:55:56Z You heard the beat of breath and the hard knock of toeshoes in “La Danse,” but the rhythms are more insistent in “Boxing Gym,” where the choreographed movements are simpler. | 'Boxing Gym': Sweat, Blood and Philosophy to the Rhythms of the Sweet Science 2010-10-21T23:08:00Z Even the first sound in the movie — the steady flapping of his sandals — underscores his bodily exertions and the insistent rhythms of work. ‘Buoyancy’ Review: Enduring Horrors on the Sea, and Struggling to Survive 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z "But he was very insistent, was very sure of himself when he spoke; he was a flamboyant speaker." Dan Shechtman: 'Linus Pauling said I was talking nonsense' 2013-01-06T00:07:04Z The ridiculing of Palin has been nowhere near as insistent or toxic as the demonizing of the President. The Undefeated: Her Holiness Sarah Palin 2011-07-15T08:55:00Z With wicked humor and trashy but insistent rhythms, Riley keeps a lid on the preachiness. Album review: The Coup, 'Sorry to Bother You' 2012-11-05T17:11:00Z A woman, now married with small children, reflects in an insistent and disquieting tone on her earlier life in New York, her multiple lovers and her obsession with an obscure Mexican poet, Gilberto Owen. First fiction roundup – reviews 2012-05-25T21:44:02Z In “Beloved,” the murdered baby’s spirit lingers among the living, an insistent, unsettling manifestation of the traumas of slavery. Perspective | In the Va. governor’s race, ‘Beloved’ is reduced to its most explicit parts. That’s obscene. 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z The mean-spiritedness of these jabs is heightened by Ms. Pasternak’s insistent claims of her own allure. Books of The Times: Close-Up Portraits of Paul Newman and Martha Stewart 2010-03-21T23:35:00Z Ms. Montgomery switched violins for the quartet’s performance of her lively “Strum,” which featured insistent plucked rhythms and elegiac melodies. Music Review: Sphinx Virtuosi Play Piazzolla and Golijov at Carnegie Hall 2012-10-10T21:10:36Z The ominous music hurtles forward with an insistent accompaniment figure in the orchestra, as Alfredo, the Baron and Flora exchange sputtered phrases. Toscanini and Giulini Put Their Mark on ?Traviata? 2010-04-04T21:37:00Z If you listen to recordings of his interviews, you hear the rapid, insistent speech of a determined man. Céline's journey to the cutting edge of literature 2013-06-15T11:01:00Z Especially in its later scenes, this overlong movie loses its focus as the director piles on distracting, pretentious cinematic embellishments underscored by an insistent use on the soundtrack of Vivaldi’s “Stabat Mater.” ‘My Name Is Hmmm ,’ a French Road Movie 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z It begins with a rude, insistent electronic drumbeat and wilting keyboard chords, and slowly rises to its feet. The Playlist: Radiohead Returns, and Justin Timberlake Trolls the World 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Moreover, he is still recycling shapes he drew by hand however many years ago, shapes that swim through his work like so many insistent memories. The Whitney Taps Frank Stella for an Inaugural Retrospective at Its New Home 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z She belted poppy Arab-tinged melodies answered by insistent keyboard lines, looking both sultry and menacing in a long black wig that she removed with a flourish onstage when the set ended. At Moogfest, Electronics Stimulate Ears and Emotions 2018-05-21T04:00:00Z The beat is slow but the arrangement builds nervous energy with quick percussion, insistent strings and backing voices appearing from all directions. The Playlist: Selena Gomez Chides an Ex, and Remy Ma Stomps on a Foe 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z There was one stretch of a darker mood: “Maze,” conjuring the lyrics’ paranoia with a modal, insistent bass line and radar-blip keyboards before making its way to its own major-key redemption. Music Review: Phish at Madison Square Garden - Review 2011-12-31T00:27:32Z And usually, they had a conveniently insistent and straightforward progression of notes and words that, once heard, were tattooed forever on your mind, ready to be retrieved in moments of despair. Stephen Sondheim, the Man Who Felt Too Much 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z In her thematically insistent book, she works hard to make the scandal known for what it was and is. Pablo Picasso, the Pariah of Paris 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z But then he became more and more insistent and, at a certain point, I got frightened. Dear Juliet: the fans who write to Shakespeare's heroine 2010-05-19T19:59:00Z The album opener, Another Volunteer, is the kind of plangent affair that gives 80s-referencing indie rock a good name, with its gently insistent drums, lush bed of synths, and vocal pitched nicely. August's best new music from across the MAP 2011-08-17T17:09:56Z Many of these writers are still green, but there's throbbing, unpredictable, insistent life in that greenness. A new, fearless generation makes this a revolutionary moment in American playwriting 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Or is "the real jolting earworm that takes up residence in your nervous system", as AshenFacedSupremo reckons, "the insistent organ chord clusters repeated in this song"? Readers recommend: riffs ? results 2012-05-17T10:00:10Z Let England Shake is well-named – insistent rhythms push the songs along, making them anything but dreary. PJ Harvey ? review 2011-03-06T00:09:25Z Museum audio guides tend to be clunky and overly insistent, but these lightweight, touch-screen paddles invited play. Seoul’s Hundred Faces 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Lyrically and musically, “Untenable” is insistent on its message, which is why the band never considered moving it to the fall, even as plenty of musicians have delayed releases until hopefully brighter days. D.C. punks Bad Moves expand their sound but keep their focus on ‘Untenable’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Catholics dissent because Church teaching is counter-cultural, insistent on sacrifice and self-control, united to the suffering of Christ on the cross, and Biblical. A Conservative Catholic Begs the Pope: Lead Us Not Into Temptation 2018-04-09T04:00:00Z The National stuck to its less cryptic songs: tales of crumbling romance and deep isolation that fight the stasis of the lyrics with insistent beats and surging buildups. ArtsBeat: Lollapalooza Chile: All About the Details 2011-04-04T00:48:21Z At a time when so much else seems fraught and troubled, Lakwena’s welcome art advocates for an insistent sense of open-eyed adventure. The sense of adventure in Lakwena Maciver's universe 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Yet the dance also works as abstract art, with its insistent momentum, the building visual interest of line and energy, the sudden drops and unexpected spins, the patterns that appear and disappear. Dance Theatre of Harlem plumbs the power of pain 2016-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s the narrator’s voice, expressed in an insistent cadence. Katie Kitamura on relationships, absence and her novel 'A Separation' 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z The questioning, which was polite but insistent, didn’t turn out well for Trump, who came off looking like a movie thug as he rudely responded to Mason, “Are you talking to me?” Perspective | As interviews get tougher, Team Trump doubles down on avoidance 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Later, Mr. Glover is drawn deeper into his solo, and his footwork becomes more insistent as he pokes and then stabs the stage with the tips of his shoes. Savion Glover Dances in ‘OM’ at the Joyce Theater 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z But DiFranco could just as easily be singing in the voice of New Orleans, where insistent life surges up, just under the surface of the water, refusing to drown under life’s deluge of problems. Is Ani DiFranco's Which Side Are You On? An OWS Rallying Cry? 2012-01-10T17:10:54Z "A deluge of fraught, breathless veil-related emails followed … insistent, unstoppably amorous." Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked – review 2013-02-07T07:00:01Z It’s no wonder then that the actress, who once ran for president herself, was drawn to support Trump’s presidency: They are similar, born of tabloid acrimony, insistent on their own versions of the truth. Perspective | Rebooted Roseanne is a proud ‘deplorable.’ Can she be the Trump era’s Archie Bunker? 2018-03-20T04:00:00Z Yet it is a peculiar, formula-defying song, with two verses and insistent hooks but — unlike the standard hit song — no big chorus. The Inside History of ‘Where Are Ü Now’ 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Calman is a bit too insistent on her own wackiness, and uses a tired "mad cat lady" stereotype to establish it. Susan Calman – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-17T17:16:00Z But even on this album’s weak tracks, and there are several, he remains a commanding presence, deploying just enough of his insistent croak to tether the song together. Critic?s Notebook: Lil Wayne?s ?Tha Carter IV? - Review 2011-08-30T22:28:26Z A caretaker, yes, my nipple still in her insistent mouth. Train wreck: Healing for two and parenting with PTSD 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z The insistent tone of these inquiries made me acutely aware at a young age of our human impulse to categorize and contextualize. ‘Do you sometimes wish you were black?’: how my child and I talk about race 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The other is a close-up of a pigeon, sitting on sandy soil, accompanied by the soundtrack of a crosswalk for the blind: a robotic voice repeating the word “wait,” followed by an insistent beeping. Near downtown L.A., an oddly entrancing art installation, at once beautiful and troubling 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z She does so by extending the staged efforts of photo artists like Jeff Wall and Stan Douglas but with slightly smaller, more insistent color images. Why the Whitney’s Humanist, Pro-Diversity Biennial Is a Revelation 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The road to yes involved a fragmented political landscape, an insistent fan base and gently prodding studio executives. Why Matt Damon and Paul Greengrass Couldn’t Quit Jason Bourne 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z If this is a work often described as a journey from darkness to light, Blomstedt embraced life-affirming optimism from the start; passages suggesting adversity were met with insistent dignity. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Conductor Is the Star 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Mr. O’Brien was insistent that Mr. Caro’s team has been nothing but polite in sending its regrets. Conan O’Brien’s Unrequited Fanboy Love for Robert Caro 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Heard today, this raw, insistent scream, from Joplin’s posthumously released 1971 album, “Pearl,” is as disturbing and powerful as ever. Review: In ‘Janis: Little Girl Blue,’ Exploring Joplin’s Demons 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z It’s in response to their insistent questions — they don’t believe the story with the animals — that Pi tells them the other story. How “Life of Pi” anticipated 9/11 2013-04-28T19:00:00Z The message of the book is simple, insistent and powerful: The West is not confronting a threat of “populism,” as so many contemporary analysts claim. The Sickness of Our Time: Is It Populism or Fascism? 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z The insistent voices of feminist intellectuals are in there, too, urging her not to be such a soft touch. Review: ‘[Porto]’ Features a Bar Regular Looking for Love 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z The music filled the courtroom Wednesday, introduced by insistent beats and the wail of a siren. Judge Gives DMX a Year in Prison and a Chance to Be Heard, Musically 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z But his friend was insistent, and he finally gave in, albeit cryptically. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z It's nearly all written in a plangent, insistent now. Not the Booker prize: Advice for Strays 2010-09-27T12:49:00Z Not quite five minutes into this one, a latecomer’s insistent knocking resounded throughout the ornate Lombard Romanesque chapel. Music Review: ‘Peckinpah Trios’ Continues Music for Contemplation Series 2014-04-08T20:04:25Z I remarked upon how underbred, illiterate, insistent, raw & ultimately nauseating she was before retiring from the room to my bed, therewith to restore myself with a little George Eliot. Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z I could simply get on with my life and wait for love to strike again, whoever it was, whatever their gender, but the question was too urgent for me, too insistent. 'Meeting new women became an addiction': one woman, 30 dates 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z His work speaks of blackness in proud, insistent, imaginative ways, touching repeatedly on the achievements of African-American culture and the ordeals of African-American life that are both part of the national psyche. Review: Jean-Michel Basquiat’s ‘Unknown Notebooks’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z Ms. Dargis wrote in The Times in February that “A Prophet” is “one of those rare films in which the moral stakes are as insistent and thought through as the aesthetic choices.” DVDs: Films of Sacha Guitry, a French Charmer, on DVD 2010-07-31T05:00:00Z Hurston is equally insistent on displaying the bruised, bloody underside of romantic misadventure. The Harlem Renaissance Through Zora Neale Hurston’s Eyes 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Now in its first phase and at nearly 200 pages, the document is inspiring and rambling, insistent and hopeful. Could Dance Be a Weapon All Over Again? 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z But my insistent and criticality-deranging affection for their work isn't really a product of the work alone. Will Self considers the Coen brothers 2011-02-11T10:08:28Z She recently turned 60, and “Goldberg” is a long way from the insistent formal brilliance of “Violin,” though there are echoes. In France, a Festival Delivers the Essential: Dance to Audiences 2020-10-16T04:00:00Z These right-wing Christians who support Donald Trump conceived a troubling, barbarous, monstrous child of insistent white innocence tethered to nearly unprecedented, bigoted power. Michael Eric Dyson: Donald Trump is “what black people have warned America about” 2018-06-18T04:00:00Z She was polite but insistent in her questioning, probing him about his Mexican-immigrants-as-rapists comments from his campaign announcement, among other topics. Taunted by Trump, ‘Little Katy’ stood her ground. And became a star because of it. 2017-01-31T05:00:00Z Among them is an account of Danny Boyle directing “Frankenstein,” each day welcoming Hytner’s insistent notes while executing none of them. Dramatic Reading: A Memoir by the Director of ‘The History Boys’ 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The sex in the best-selling novels of the 1970s, and in the five years before and after that decade, was wilder and more insistent than it is in the popular fiction of today. Good Paperback Vibrations 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z The music is slow, portentous and sometimes very striking indeed, especially when it builds into a kind of crippled funeral march, with thudding bass drums, tolling gongs and insistent synthesiser chords. London Contemporary Orchestra – review 2013-05-27T16:39:04Z I like the idea, and even more, I believe in it — not as a signifier of the death of writing, but rather of its necessary, messy and insistent life. The death of writing? Not again 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z Like Thwaite, Hartley is insistent that Larkin loved women; nor will she go along with the idea of him as a miser. The real Larkin 2010-06-26T23:04:00Z But it's easier to imagine that the academy will dismiss Nolan's unwieldy jumble, ignoring Paramount's insistent ad campaign on its behalf. Oscar race is crowded for best picture, screenplay 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Puts’s music was captivating from the start, with insistent drumming that took an idea from Leonard Bernstein’s music for the movie “On the Waterfront” and ran with it. A Mahler Mini-Festival in New York 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z An American insistent on his right to be casual and to be accommodated, he is perhaps less charming and more of a pill than he is meant to be. TV Picks: 'East Los High,' Paralympics, 'Welcome to Sweden' 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z Ms. Williams is forthright about almost everything, but insistent that the work she’s done doesn’t require further explanation. Diane Williams, a Master of the Very Short Story, Has a Very Big New Book 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z The richly hued work, for Da Capo’s core formation of piano, violin, cello, flute and clarinet, colorfully traversed insistent, frantic and introspective moods. Music Review: Da Capo Players at Merkin Hall, Musing on Night 2010-06-03T22:18:00Z All that finery: The effect can be alienating, Mr. Wenders suggested, his voice just audible over the insistent strains of Ave Maria piped over the sound system. What’s Faith Got to Do With It? 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z The trio of lead performances and Decker’s woozy, insistent camera make the film all so heady and stimulating that it comes with its own warning at the start. The best films of 2018 … that you didn't see 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z In its insistent focus on a woman whose identity isn’t solely determined by her relationships with men, “Girlfriends” isn’t just thrilling — it’s radical. Don’t Cry, Resist! Movies From a Female Revolution 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z Maybe, but she was too insistent on the intellectual content of art to be pinned down to any purely psychological motivation. Sturtevant retrospective at MoMA is double trouble indeed When I drank the 2009 in August, I was riveted by its depth, complexity and insistent intensity. From 2018, Indelible Messages From the Past 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z “Satellites Are Spinning” is a bizarre, insistent little ditty built on an unstable augmented chord, with dissonant horn swells and an accompaniment that feels disjointed from Tyson’s vocal melody. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Sun Ra 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z Well over six feet tall, broad-shouldered and, especially in later years, hefty, Mr. Herrmann could be formidable or friendly, authoritative or milquetoast, insistent or obsequious. Edward Herrmann, Actor With a Noble Air, Dies at 71 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z It’s simply experience accumulated pleasurably, tempered with a recognition that complexities and wisdom differ from insistent opinions. The Profound Modesty of Good Dolcetto 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z For her part, Julia is discomfited by the girl’s disabilities, her strange noises, her insistent need to touch and stroke faces, hair, fingers, eyes, fabric. Kimberly Elkins’s ‘What Is Visible,’ a novel about Laura Bridgman Such words are largely set to folk-inflected pop melodies that have the insistent, mildly agreeable patter of a gentle spring rain. Theater Review: In ‘If/Then,’ Idina Menzel Travels Two Paths 2014-03-31T02:00:13Z The motets were full of strange, insistent anxieties: narrators paranoid about being spied on, the specter of envy and gossip. Music Review: Anonymous 4 at Corpus Christi Church 2013-05-13T21:59:59Z An insistent rhythmic pulse permeates the work, which was given a strong performance by the Philharmonic and the violinist Leonidas Kavakos. Music Review: Philharmonic Takes on Stravinsky at Avery Fisher 2010-04-29T20:49:00Z The rhythmic language vacillates widely between insistent pulse and total freedom. Ingram Marshall Built and Obscured Monoliths of Sound 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Walczak’s steady, not overly insistent knocking had won her over. Bound by Their Boston Neighborhood 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z Writing in The Washington Post, movie critic Rita Kempley called it “a rude, insistent rap, an unflinching, often funny, always compassionate look at coming of age.” Remembering ‘Boyz N the Hood’ 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Her insistent perception — the real action of this novel — is her greatest skill and her riskiest vulnerability. Review | Barack Obama’s summer reading pick ‘Intimacies’ is an unsettling novel about moral dilemmas 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z But he was insistent that that was not this story. Matthew Broderick on Dirty Weekend and Ferris Bueller at 30 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z The more time she spent in the studio, Ms. Cara said, the better she understood the way pop songs worked, and the more insistent she became about using the form for good. Alessia Cara Speaks Up for the Outsiders on ‘Here’ 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z It has an insistent but implied beat, many layers of overt and implied syncopation, and a determination to keep changing. Cécile McLorin Salvant Branches Out, and 7 More New Songs 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z "Funk Melodico" is exactly as its described: an insistent jam that juggles tempos to create whirlwind tones. World Cup kicks up interest in best of Brazilian music 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z A feminist and Marxist who now also teaches, Barzini is a severe, unsparing critic of the commodification and exploitation of the female body by men, which greatly complicates her son’s insistent, at times intrusive gaze. Sundance Documentaries Expose Truths, Both Glorious and Bitter 2019-02-03T05:00:00Z For the next few hours, the bass is heavy, the beat insistent, the laughter and conversation loud. A masterclass in Mexican food culture from the country's leading chef 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z While the production is too insistent on its portrait of medieval Scotland as hell on earth, it compensates with arresting human detail. Macbeth 2010-04-30T20:35:00Z But my increasingly insistent wanderlust makes me lately want to pull something from its current menu. A carbonara with its roots in queer history 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z His quaveringly sensitive, refined, yet defiantly insistent voice – “Everyone has been very kind....” – became much imitated, much parodied. Peter Bradshaw on John Hurt: 'A virtual folk memory of wisdom and style' 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z He then became insistent that my partner join us. Social Q’s: The Honor of a Partner’s Presence 2012-08-30T19:22:57Z The more Fumiko’s care diverged from real infant care, the more insistent I became. Modern Love: A 5-Pound Sack of Maternal Wisdom 2010-10-22T18:56:00Z It’s doleful and insistent, a reedy high tenor that sails up to a plummy, androgynous falsetto. Sam Smith’s Sold-Out Show at Madison Square Garden 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The latter release yielded the relatively up-tempo “Forgotten Eyes” and the churning and insistent “Not,” one of the show’s highlights, which ended with a twin-guitar rave-up. Review | Big Thief transcends ‘folk’ at 9:30 Club 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Friend handled an insistent high-note phrase with subtle gradations of volume and touch. Music Review: Grand Band at Le Poisson Rouge 2012-08-08T20:53:33Z The engine for this vivid, loving book is Lim’s insistent questioning — her recognition that whatever comes next for Hong Kong will require not only fortitude but also willful acts of imagination. A Deeply Personal Look at the Past, Present and Future of Hong Kong 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Caroline Sullivan The cast of Father Ted including Mrs Doyle, coiner of 1995's favourite catchphrase, the insistent "Go on, go on go on!" The Guide's 1,000th issue - 1994-1999 2013-01-05T00:02:00Z Initially, Mr. Mendes said, “I was very insistent that we rehearse them like plays, for five or six weeks before we started shooting.” ‘The Hollow Crown,’ on PBS, Retells Shakespearean History 2013-09-12T16:18:13Z In Mr. Greenstein’s work, a gentle violin melody unfolds over a rippling piano accompaniment before evolving into more fragmented, insistent patterns. Review: Lise de la Salle and Members of the Knights, Traveling Through Time 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Particularly unfortunate is Mr. Kaplan’s insistent, obfuscating oscillation between their histories, a strategy that prevents him from getting a grip on either. | 'Varian and Putzi': ?Varian and Putzi: A 20th Century Tale? ? Review 2011-10-08T00:41:18Z “As this fake world grew, all of us went along with it because the simplicity was reassuring,” Curtis’s insistent voice-over tells us toward the beginning of his long documentary, which he also wrote and edited. Adam Curtis’s Essential Counterhistories 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Their debut single, Microlite, marvellously meticulous in its production, is four minutes of limpid loveliness that suggests – with its gently insistent electronic pulse, swathes of shimmering synths and aching perkiness – Vampire Weekend playing New Order. Trophy Wife (No 876) 2010-09-28T15:47:00Z Sometimes language misshapes because of insistent violence: decorum forgotten, referendums ignored, and the racism flags are everywhere with their snakes and stars and mismatched colors twisting over the local houses. Variations on a Lead 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z The drive to return for a final season was inspired by her daughter, Madelyn, who was insistent about seeing Ms. Somogyi onstage again. Jennie Somogyi’s Last Steps, After All It Took to Get to Them 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z This was also our first encounter with what we discovered to be a distinct Moscow character: the insistent coat check person. Moscow in the Winter, Alive and Illuminated 2011-11-25T06:01:08Z And there is a quietly insistent chivalric element underlying his greatest novel, The Good Soldier. Ford Madox Ford's affair with Provence 2010-08-20T23:00:00Z Several restaurateurs said the soliciting has recently become more frequent and insistent, and the resulting disputes more fierce. When Outdoor Diners and Homeless People Meet, Restaurants Try to Cope 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z His work, as Joan Didion wrote, “typically featured a cottage or a house of such insistent coziness as to seem actually sinister, suggestive of a trap designed to attract Hansel and Gretel.” Review: ‘Turner,’ a Portrait of a Most Dazzling and Disagreeable Artist 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z But the insistent internal propulsion and warm, rounded keyboard tones that Tangerine Dream settled on in the ’80s are still at the core of its music. Music Review: Tangerine Dream at Best Buy Theater 2012-07-09T22:24:33Z Combined with DeJohnette’s insistent ride cymbal and a timpani-like rumble from Grenadier, it became a drama — but one that stretched and repeated itself for little reason except indulgence. Hudson’s jammy tendencies come to the forefront 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Luna, a young woman who shares the name of the poem’s protagonist, is firing questions, insistent on learning more about her mysterious namesake. Review | ‘The Last Romantics’ is a sweeping family saga with a poetic streak 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z “We who are so capable of intricate thought are almost boorishly insistent about viewing the complexities of Israeli society and political makeup through a one-channel, narrow prism.” Theodore Bikel, Master of Versatility in Songs, Roles and Activism, Dies at 91 2015-07-21T04:00:00Z But Mr. Ruby, he said, was “absolutely insistent” that “someday, someplace, somebody’s going to want this stuff.” Jack Kirby of Marvel Comics Left Some Ideas Behind 2010-04-12T21:10:00Z The iPad, with its cheerful icons and insistent gleam, invariably tugs my gaze away from my own reading material, an inescapable distraction. When Couples Find Gadgets Interfere With Harmony 2011-12-07T23:37:22Z Morton, so good at women churning on the inside — the young war widow in "The Messenger," the insistent cancer warrior in "Decoding Annie Parker" — does carefully contained work in "Miss Julie." In 'Miss Julie,' Liv Ullmann is too faithful to Strindberg play 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z The interplay of opposites — light and dark, friendship and bitterness — is an insistent and powerful motif in this heartbreaker. New crime fiction by Penny, Woodrell and Mayor 2011-10-05T22:49:03Z He's insistent that he has to make his own opportunities instead of waiting for a seat that will never open up. "The Morning Show" delivers an empty on-air moment that could take pointers from Amber Ruffin 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z The voice is not always used in the attack mode that has long made it such an insistent weapon, but it still carries an unrivalled degree of hurt and vitriol when required. Elvis Costello 2010-10-16T23:04:00Z The opening story, "When the Door Closed, It Was Dark", confronts the reader with an insistent physicality, shadowed with violence. The Pre-War House and Other Stories by Alison Moore – review 2013-05-17T13:01:01Z Maybe you dismissed Céline Dion long ago, put off by her cheesy pop hits in the nineties, her theatrical voice, and her insistent arm movements. People Who Like Celine Dion Are People, Too 2014-05-09T04:00:00Z This discerning and insistent gaze captures the spirit of “Fathoms: The World in the Whale,” Giggs’s delving, haunted and poetic debut. Staring Into the Eye of a Whale and Seeing the Whole World 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z The insistent big beats of the “Beta Love” opener, “Dance With Me,” promptly confirm that the chamber-pop phase has passed. Ra Ra Riot’s new album is a pleasing radio-ready departure 2013-02-07T23:24:56Z Bringing the insistent, romantic Giuseppe into his story allows Cantone and the writers to showcase that side of him and his stubborn insistence on pushing away frightening unknowns. "And Just Like That," Carrie's last supper serves up Samantha's cameo and just maybe, a fresh start 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z But the reality was far more fluid, with an insistent electronic pulse permeating the lochside site for three days and nights. RockNess – review 2012-06-12T15:46:05Z Only the angels of the title seem to be lacking in this insistent energy, and there’s a reason for that. Review: An ‘Angels in America’ That Soars on the Breath of Life 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z By then, Stoller’s insistent elegance and meticulous coherence were falling out of fashion. Ezra Stoller Turned Buildings Into Monuments 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z The title track of the EP is typical: vengefully dark: "She watched you wilting, she watched you cry," she roars over an insistent clang that provides the rhythm for the song. Nadine Shah (No 1,366) 2012-10-05T08:00:06Z Propaganda brought to you in part by the insistent gullibility of the media. Perspective | Media beware: Impeachment hearings will be the trickiest test of covering Trump 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z In the scene in which Agnès, unknowingly, eats her lover’s heart, her vocal line remains implacable, as she politely answers her husband’s insistent queries: “It tastes good.” Critic’s Notebook: George Benjamin’s ‘Written on Skin’ Caps Tanglewood Festival 2013-08-13T21:39:43Z Shaw’s ode unspools as a fluid landscape of gently insistent chord progressions and subtly developing airs, with a deceptive quietness, for the piece soon darkens and grows increasingly rich. In a Ballet Across America world premiere, even the piano dances 2019-06-01T04:00:00Z “So the goal is to be so confident and so insistent upon the realism of it that they are brought into something that perks their attention instead of repulsing them.” Christoph Waltz, Directing Opera, Moves From Tarantino to Verdi 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z But after Schoen moved quickly from a casual observation to her on Twitter that she’s “awesome and hilarious” to more insistent contact, she ignored him. Anatomy of a man-tantrum: A woman shuts down the advances of an ex-“Harry Potter” podcast host and he freaks out 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z In the lives of Sittenfeld’s characters, the lusts and disappointments of youth loom large well into middle age, as insistent as a gang of loud, showy teenagers taking up all the oxygen in the room. The Heroines in Curtis Sittenfeld’s First Story Collection Are All Grown Up 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z Through its dynamic performances, gleeful anarchy and insistent embrace of nonsense and mayhem, “Die Monosau” restored a chaotic energy to a venerable company that has stumbled repeatedly in recent years. Review: ‘Die Monosau’ Revives Chaotic Energy in Berlin 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z As in his last book, “Religion for Atheists,” de Botton is so insistent on the difficulties built into marriage that you can’t help feeling he’s making veiled reference to some marital trouble of his own. The gulf between spirited sex and everyday life 2013-01-30T19:32:25Z As the spettacolo takes shape with fractious dialogue and insistent politics, it becomes evident that the filmmakers are less interested in the final play than in its production, in its process and multiple meanings. Review: In ‘Spettacolo,’ a Tuscan Town Where All the World’s a Stage 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z But the flavors don’t hide anymore; they have an insistent presence, and their dynamics are beautifully modulated from one dish to the next. At Aska, a Nordic Chef’s Vision Bears Fruit (and Lichens) 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z In the first movement, when episodes of busy passagework for the violin break out, the music often sounds like an insistent toccata. Music Review: Lionel Bringuier Leads Philharmonic by Himself 2013-06-14T19:16:12Z Merrick’s understated but insistent lessons on the humanity in all men and women would have served Senator Kelly well: in the first movie his xenophobic views get him transformed into a jellyfishlike form by Magneto. Bradley Cooper Takes on ‘The Elephant Man’ 2012-07-19T22:52:09Z The noise had become clamorous and insistent as the mother swallow returned again and again to thrust masticated worms down the chicks’ gullets. Learning 'Lear': Time to Leave the Nest 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z But the firing grew more insistent, then constant, then deafening, and we retreated inside. Stay-at-home dad in a war zone 2012-09-30T23:00:00Z It is characterized by an insistent lack of naturalism, its almost lurid color and its melodramatic theme. ‘The Red Shoes’ Takes the Stage 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z To step into the shape of a life that waits, tantalising, beyond others' expectations, beyond her mother's blind and insistent love. The Beloved by Annah Faulkner – review by Kristina Olsson 2013-06-18T05:28:36Z The prevailing mood in this 25-minute work is brassy and insistent, and although written for a relatively modest orchestra, the effect is rather bombastic, as if Lindberg was determined to make his presence felt. LPO/V?nks? - review 2010-10-17T21:31:00Z It’s a joyful noise that rattles around this concrete-and-metal space, as insistent as a street preacher. Review | The Block food hall is a daily party down in Annandale 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z The country’s insistent egalitarianism often requires self-deprecation and the deflection of praise as a prerequisite for public affection. Liane Moriarty’s Hollywood Angst: It’s Complicated 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Weber scans their faces in a series of insistent, probing tracking shots—the camera both glides past them and rises and dips to catch details of the décor. Lois Weber’s Vital Films of the Early Silent Era 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Running through the movie is an insistent, underdog nationalism. Review: ‘Brothers ... Blood Against Blood,’ Set in the Mean Streets of Mumbai 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The perfume is subtle but insistent, and when it threatens to be too much, you bite into a soft dried tomato. At Lilia in Brooklyn, Missy Robbins Is Cooking Pasta Again 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z "Only Murders in the Building" has a structural skew that might be considered a red flag in other shows: its insistent lovability. "Only Murders in the Building" returns with an invitation to the familliar 2022-06-28T04:00:00Z Some of American journalism’s giants, she said, showed that it was possible to be both insistent and persistent without being abrasive or sparking an argument. Clashes in the White House press room are riveting. But how far is too far? 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Racism is seldom openly acknowledged in “Paris”; it is instead a stealthy, insistent part of its general climate. Review: Shrinking Lives at a Big Box Store in ‘Paris’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z His parents do: Back in 1977, they took their insistent 2-year-old to see “Star Wars” 10 times, though he never stayed awake long enough to see the Death Star explode. Possessed: Jedi Weapons Sold Separately 2011-03-17T21:39:16Z That this debate has grown more insistent and intense in recent years is partly a consequence of the very cultural and technological changes that fueled the comedy boom. Adjusting to a World That Won’t Laugh With You 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z It's more Room On Fire than First Impressions of Earth – an insistent groove but no fondness for hair-metal guitar. New music: The Strokes ? Under Cover of Darkness 2011-02-10T12:01:00Z Along with Mr. Furrer, who was present for the performance, all were recalled repeatedly for long, loud and insistent ovations. Music Review: Talea Ensemble and Ekmeles at the Czech Center 2013-05-17T22:02:36Z While film publicity usually focuses on the hand-holding harmony achieved on set, the campaign for The Revenant has seemed doggedly insistent on proving just how hard-going it was. Avoid the soup – and don’t glue your eyes together: how to survive a movie shoot 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z “Spiderweb” approaches those ideas subtly, but they become increasingly insistent as the story goes on. This Week in Fiction: Mariana Enriquez on the Fascination of Ghost Stories 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z He is shy and serious, with an ironic sense of humor so subtle it is easy to miss, and he follows many of his thoughts with an accommodating, or gently insistent, “no?” An Art of Loopholes 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z “This movie is a big deal,” said Cameron Bailey, the festival’s artistic director, as he introduced what might be the most insistent of the many festival offerings that insist on social justice. ArtsBeat: At Toronto Film Festival, an Emphasis on Justice 2013-09-08T16:35:26Z One way of reading her subsequent career has been as an effort to change that insistent “we” she talks about of her mother, to a definitive “I”. Jodie Foster: ‘I make movies to figure out who I am’ | Tim Adams 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z The finale Wouarri begins with a simple insistent bass riff, and builds to a furious, exhilarating climax involving wild chanting, and wailing brass and guitar. Fanga/Maâlem Abdallah Guinéa: Fangnawa Experience – review 2012-11-22T22:00:01Z The hooks, the insistent melodies were more abundant on “Nostalgia, Ultra.” Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange' 2012-07-13T16:35:00Z Rather, it’s in their insistent delivery — a commitment to repetition so persuasive that even Kendrick Lamar, who knows from sticky catch phrases, tweeted the line this week. Rae Sremmurd like a Vine video in musical form on 'SremmLife' 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z Ethel opened its set with an energetic rendering of Terry Riley’s insistent, invitingly chromatic “Sunrise of the Planetary Dream Collector.” Music Review: Spotlight on San Francisco, and the New 2011-04-13T22:51:31Z The soundtrack, by tomandandy, is a sort of cinematic spooky house music — overly insistent and incessant. 'The Apparition': not a ghost of a chance of being good 2012-08-24T17:26:04Z A loaded scene of insistent affection and weighty anticipation, this particular fête seems rather less than galante. The Getty just announced its most important drawings acquisition in 20 years—and adds a 'Surprise' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z These repetitions are subtle, but insistent, and they give Pei’s modernism a quiet intentionality throughout all its parts. Perspective | The best way to honor I.M. Pei? Spend some time at the National Gallery of Art. 2019-05-17T04:00:00Z But insistent politeness is one of the reasons our democracy and fractured relationship with the facts teeters on the precipice. It's the most wonderful time of year ... to not make your loved ones of color visit a sundown town 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z Bow is insistent on keeping the narrative positive, because she wants her kids to have hope for the future. “Black-ish” is fearless: Its brilliant take on police brutality mixes heartbreak and hope 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Still, she knows people sometimes don’t ask for her opinion because she can be what might charitably be called insistent. Alice Waters on Sex, Drugs and Sustainable Agriculture 2017-08-22T04:00:00Z But A Place in the Country, though idiosyncratic, turns out to be less introvert than Sebald's fictions, less insistent on a "Sebald" figure who serves as the origin of its impressions and arguments. A Place in the Country by WG Sebald – review 2013-06-21T15:00:02Z But Mr. Sanborn’s videos were generally so insistent on themselves, and often so garish, that they reduced the music to mere accompaniment. Critic?s Notebook: A Mistress of Voltaire, Set to Video 2011-06-05T22:05:53Z Stripped of arrangements that have been familiar for decades, Dylan’s voice comes through as more insistent, while the lyrics land more sharply. On ‘More Blood, More Tracks,’ Familiar Bob Dylan Songs Cut Closer to the Bone 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Or even Stephen Sondheim’s bracing title song of “Company,” with its insistent refrains of “Bobby, Bobby, Bobby baby” over a rhythmic riff that evokes a telephone busy signal. Opera? Musical? Please Respect the Difference 2011-07-09T03:30:34Z There are some loud and insistent voices in the software realm, he explained, but they held no monopoly on answers. A Date to Remember 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z Glass is boldly symphonic in one moment, softly insistent the next, weaving a harmonic tapestry that becomes part of the visual fabric on stage. New Glass opera "The Lost" premieres in Austria 2013-04-13T00:11:09Z But noticeably they lack the inherent complexity and insistent allure of the pieces at Murray Guy. Lucy Skaer: ‘Sticks & Stones’ and ‘Random House’ 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z The clinic in India is run by a doctor, Nayna Patel, who is insistent that her service not become a baby factory. | 'Google Baby': Surrogate Pregnancy Goes Global 2010-06-15T21:41:00Z Then a banal march tune steals in, seemingly innocuous except for the insistent drumming. Music Review: ‘Shostakovich for the Children of Syria,’ a Benefit Concert 2014-01-14T22:39:52Z At Sunday’s matinee, the actress basked in the show’s success, and received seven standing ovations, including for the insistent barn burner “Don’t Rain on My Parade” and the reflective ballad “People.” Lea Michele Ends ‘Dream’ Run in ‘Funny Girl’ After Reinvigorating Show 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z The song is a bright spot on the EP, built on circuitous guitar lines and a hushed, insistent vocal melody. Philippines/Seattle indie pop connection: new Multo EP, video, 10.4 Rog remix 2011-04-19T17:15:22Z When Jeremy, the more insistent on settling it once and for all, crashes Mark’s birthday party at their mother’s home, their long-simmering power struggle boils up. Movie Review: ‘The Do-Deca-Pentathlon,’ From Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass 2012-07-05T21:06:58Z Being firm, being easy, ignoring it, gentle shaming, being insistent, educating, logical reasoning. This little piggy stayed home 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z The human hand meets the alphanumeric ether, while the insistent evidence of tools and machinery acts as interlocutor. Douglas Tausik Ryder's curious wood sculptures at Jason Vass Gallery 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z Jumping sequences don’t cover much space; instead they keep changing direction back and forth, covering the same little patch with the involuntary and insistent tone that characterizes Mr. Naharin’s choreography. Dance Review: Batsheva Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2012-03-08T22:36:23Z Toronto is filled with lush, insistent greenery and an abundance of parks. 36 Hours in Toronto 2012-07-26T20:11:35Z It’s more like a sudden, insistent fit of wistfulness, a yearning to become a different version of herself after almost seven years with him. ‘House Plant’ Review: A Bizarro Breakup and What Comes After 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z The title track remains the most absorbing Portico melody, and Jack Wyllie's soprano sax takes on an eloquent, voice-like tremor against a more insistent percussive sound on the live version. Portico Quartet: Knee-Deep in the North Sea ? review 2011-02-03T21:46:00Z Mr. Costanzo was insistent; he eventually pleaded the Philharmonic’s case on a long call with an official of the park that ended not only with permission, but also with the potential of a future partnership. With a Pickup Truck and an Open Mind, the Philharmonic Returns 2020-08-30T04:00:00Z He slid it in gently, and I felt the pulsating rhythms, the insistent crescendo. Style Invitational Week 1356: Ask Backwards 38 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z On Can't Be Saved the music is insistent in a quietly menacing way, but there's nothing here to match fellow Brit rapper Ghostpoet in terms of achieving a striking contrast between voice and music. New band of the day ? No 958: Sound of Rum 2011-02-01T17:00:43Z There’s nothing quite like the sun’s insistent pink glow through the walls of a tent to nudge you out of bed at sunrise. S’more, s’il vous plait? A French company opens its first ‘glampground’ in the U.S. 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z "There is an insistent interrogation of the dignity of reading and writing," he says. A Curious Incident on stage: the National does Mark Haddon's novel 2012-07-25T18:01:00Z The solo, from Jerome Robbins’s “Dances at a Gathering,” is meditative and internal; gradually, Garcia’s energy becomes more insistent, more explosive as he sweeps around the space in grand jetés. Review: Sofia Coppola Brings New York City Ballet Back to Life 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z But her face, almost celestial in its insistent hope, gets the job done. Review: Mother!, Ambitious and Dorky, Is Sure to Be Divisive 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z And yet, scholars of the period are still hearing the insistent beep of their early warning systems. The 1930s were humanity's darkest, bloodiest hour. Are you paying attention? 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z And it very likely wouldn’t exist, she admits, had it not been for the gentle and insistent prodding from her editor. Amy Tan, the Reluctant Memoirist 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The film took more than six years to make and it captures a woman confronting her own mortality but still insistent that her work continue. Documentary focuses on unlikely champion of Mexican cuisine 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Furie's insistent sanguinity won out, and he chose to look the other way. In PBS' "Feels Good Man," Pepe the Frog is the "superhero" who gets vindication 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z On paper this sounds hokey, a facile equivalence between Jews and blacks, but onstage it works as an insistent, mostly terrifying, reminder of difference. | 'Under the Cross': Religion and Family at Odds (With Blacks Playing Jews) 2011-06-13T21:57:52Z "I was thinking," he sings in his urgent Scottish lilt against jangling guitar, an urgent bass line and insistent drum. Mothers at Hauser & Wirth - review 2011-01-23T18:28:10Z Was there a battle, with some saying, “Guys please, no fake rock, it’s too ridiculous,” and others insistent that, “Hey, we’re making a show about Soviet agents living among us as Americans – the rock stays”? ArtsBeat: ‘The Americans’ Recap: A Fake Rock and a Fake Relationship (or Two) 2014-03-06T04:00:35Z She is quite at home with constructed imagery but is insistent about its purchase on historical and contemporary reality. Anna Lim’s Vision of Nuclear Anxiety in South Korea 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z An insistent third movement is dominated by a rustic piccolo tune. Music Review: MoMA Summergarden Series Opens With Contemporary Works 2013-07-08T20:52:46Z Like many Silvestrov pieces, this one was a touch too pretty, even in Andsnes’s unforced reading, but after the Janacek, its insistent serenity came off as a plea for beauty, if not for peace. Review: Dvorak’s ‘Poetic Tone Pictures’ Makes Its Carnegie Debut 2023-02-01T05:00:00Z Suddenly, aesthetic symmetry is destroyed, and the neighbor—too friendly, too crude, and too insistent—can now peer into their pristine and elegant abode. New Directors/New Films Series Sets Lineup 2010-02-25T17:48:00Z Then, when this election is over, have a big, long, drawn-out, courageous, insistent, principled argument with your husband. If you know how to argue fair, then argue fair. Hire me, I’m a volunteer! 2012-10-10T00:00:00Z Tortured by Li’s elusiveness, the Writer ponders during one of his solipsistic reflections why Li “was so insistent in possessing me.” ‘Art of Love’ Review: An Erotic Male Fantasy in Puerto Rico 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z Politics are never far from any global festival although, with its insistent emphasis on glamour, Cannes does its best to attenuate life’s harsher truths. The Cannes Film Festival Opens Amid Disruptions 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z I feel similarly irritated when people get too insistent about the "proper way" to cook things. Rebellious recipes for bolognese 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z Did he or didn’t he is the question that’s teased throughout the insistent, gripping “Third Murder.” Review: In ‘The Third Murder,’ Guilty as Charged Isn’t the Whole Story 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z Her insistent imagery and sometimes oblique narrative approach don’t always deliver the dividends sought. Review: In ‘Berlin Syndrome,’ Passion Leads to Horrific Regret 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z From now on, her use of his name becomes insistent, as she tries to recruit him as her accomplice. Spies by Michael Frayn 2012-06-01T21:51:01Z But although he spent several years working on that investigation, it's not this crime that has maintained the most insistent hold on his intellect and imagination. The Fort Bragg murders: is Jeffrey MacDonald innocent? 2013-04-13T23:05:28Z Scott likes to throw a lot on the screen — the movie churns with roaring men, galloping horses, shrieking minions — which can clutter up a story but here creates insistent momentum. ‘The Last Duel’ Review: A Medieval Epic in the Age of #MeToo 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z “I refused all the time to go through it, but Hildegard is very insistent, and finally she convinced me,” he added, referring to his wife, who has managed the band’s affairs since 1971. Can’s Live Shows Will Be Heard at Last, Thanks to a Bootlegger in Big Pants 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z Hard, insistent, melodic, lyrically accomplished and dense with thematic intent, it's the best rap album of the year. Randall Roberts' best pop albums of 2014 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z It’s not obvious to us now, but the most far-reaching social development of the early 21st century is our increasingly insistent habit of rewarding ourselves whenever we feel the need to lift our moods. We are all addicts now 2013-05-11T23:00:00Z The story shares a repetitive style and a quietly insistent tone with the title story in Tim O’Brien’s classic Vietnam War collection, “The Things They Carried.” Works of Fiction That Are Best Read Together 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z As she bourrées circles around the insistent Poet, her blond hair bounces at her waist, and her glittering eyes stare into an abyss. Dance Review: New York City Ballet: Balanchine, Wheeldon and Martins 2011-10-06T21:30:17Z And with this band songs that grow meditative in their studio versions became spikier and more insistent, to brilliant effect. Music Review: A Malian Singer Sets Her West African Message to a Dance Beat 2011-07-31T22:06:14Z On the adjoining page, Sarah Webster Fabio’s “I Would Be for You Rain” wards us off wryly: “I would be for you rain; / insistent, persistent, yet / intermittent.” A Monumental and Rapturous New Anthology of Black American Poetry 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z If intellectual striving is pretentious, then what do we call an insistent resignation to fleeting mediocrity? It’s good to be pretentious! 2012-06-28T00:00:00Z Stubbornly insistent that nothing would change — that I would carry on — I left those children wondering. All my parenting mistakes 2012-06-26T00:00:00Z All these years later, you can still witness rooms briefly hush when Patsy Cline’s “Crazy,” with its intimate, insistent vulnerability, plays. Ken Burns’s Delightful “Country Music” Gets the Big Things Mostly Right 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z The man had already left, but my dad was still insistent they check the cameras and call the police, “for God’s sake, there are children in there.” I was a chronic masturbator 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z The British submarine thriller “Black Sea” has an insistent political subtext that distinguishes it from earlier films in the undersea action genre. ‘Black Sea’ Stars Jude Law as a Seething Adventurer 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Penn may be the unfortunate winner of this dubious contest, to judge from the insistent jeers that greeted “The Last Face” at its Friday morning press screening. Cannes Keeps Its Traditions, Including Its Boos 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z Nevertheless, “Insecure” finds insistent joy in contemplating the direction Issa and Molly are taking, together and separately, in stories blessed by stunning cinematography and an addictive soundtrack. Best TV of the Decade, from 2010 to 2019 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z He was still really, really insistent that he wasn’t looking for anyone else, and would look again at cancelling the sites. The guy I'm seeing is still using dating sites. What should I do? 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z She wants to know how to explain this archive of Black death insistent on his inclusion. Best of 2020: George Floyd and the white gaze 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z At 52, he is insistent this approach to work does not inhibit his personal happiness or stability. Fred Armisen has a TV show. And a Grammy nomination. And a stand-up tour. He’s not done yet. 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Starlight starts off like one of those long-forgotten disco troupes such as Players Association, with all the requisite elements that made disco so memorable: the shivering strings, the distracted-diva vocals over the insistent rhythms. New band of the day: Escort (No 1,506) 2013-05-03T16:34:13Z With its insistent drumbeat of ideas and images, the staging proved both fascinating and overwhelming — a fitting metaphor for the deadline driven, round-the-clock digital clamor of modern society. Review: In ‘Refuse the Hour,’ Exploring Temporal Extremes 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z I was standing in front of the open pantry with a bottle of Flintstones Gummies in my hand and an insistent four-year-old at my knees. How I embrace my son’s language of numbers 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z A fluent, triumphant sweep didn’t hide insistent detailing, particularly in the woodwinds and the lower strings, but it did put smoothness, and a pristine cultivation of hue, first. Review: Yannick Nézet-Séguin Leads the Philadelphia Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z He also shined an insistent light on the revolutionary struggles of impoverished farmers, feminists, laborers and resisters of slavery and war. 2010-01-29T05:49:00Z Twombly's art is like an insistent echo of forgotten graffiti, murmuring from ancient walls. An early look in the Broad museum reveals a show that doesn't quite gel 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z Page McConnell’s keyboards, particularly Hammond organ, pushed forward with insistent, meaty chords, and then dissolved into support. Music Review: Phish at Madison Square Garden - Review 2011-12-31T00:27:32Z Near the end a sound appears, high and scratchy and insistent, raising the tension as the guitar feeds back. Courtney Barnett Faces Doubts and Doubters on ‘Tell Me How You Really Feel’ 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z He didn’t care, saying it was none of their business, but she was insistent. Modern Love: Sex on the Run? No, We Parked 2010-10-07T23:44:00Z Emily’s unhappiness starts to seem too idiosyncratic to support a larger, technological thesis just as Ms. Stanton’s signposting of that thesis becomes more insistent. Review: In ‘Today Is My Birthday,’ Love Is a Butt Dial 2017-12-10T05:00:00Z Toward the end, Willa’s insistent quietness begins to seem willfully unyielding, even as it also grows wistful: “I was so good at being quiet, I told myself as I pressed my lips together.” Women Seeking Intimacy Through Food, Mathematics and Rhythm 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Outwardly calm in the film, Snowden becomes jumpy at an insistent hotel fire alarm. Filming in fear: Edward Snowden as 'Citizenfour' 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z The songs were ballads, waltzes, marches and shiftier concoctions, placing her lustrous voice low and high, humble and insistent, sometimes gliding, sometimes making wide leaps. Music Review: Oceanic Passions in a Chamber Setting 2011-01-28T23:52:56Z And Mr. Howard’s voice rose to match the music’s crests, from a quiet, elfin murmur to a more insistent, rasp-edged tenor — and at times into a pealing falsetto that merged desperation and exultance. Music Review: Ben Howard at the Bowery Ballroom 2012-04-03T21:27:26Z Frequently during a recent conversation with R&B superstar Bobby Brown he returned to some version of an insistent refrain: “I'm just Bobby. Can't be nobody else.” Bobby Brown on “The Bobby Brown Story,” mental health, and being in “the R&B ‘Lord of the... 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z By then, rumors of an infectious new virus were growing more insistent every day. Marianne Williamson: A Politico or Apolitical? 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z The audio consists of an insistent droning sound, reminiscent of a call to prayer. A meditation on green -- the color, not the sustainability shorthand 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z The Ives is infinite, but you have this insistent question that keeps coming back, and you have a progressively complicated and chaotic non-answer. Joyce DiDonato Wants Music to ‘Build a Paradise for Today’ 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z It was an insistent reminder that even in concert settings, fans feel like they’re in control of their stars, not the other way around. As Objects Fly Onstage, Stars Become Part of the Audience’s Show 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z It has a relatively basic structure: 53 short interlocking repetitive patterns centered around a doggedly insistent rhythmic pulse. Terry Riley’s Avant-Garde Sounds Are Still Casting Spells 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z "There's a sunniness and insistent optimism about it." Onyx Chamber Players to cap season with Britten, Ives, world premiere 2012-06-21T20:25:07Z And while “BoJack” may be, as many writers have argued, remarkable for its insistent bleakness, it is not unique in that regard. “BoJack Horseman” and the Comedy of Despair 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Released five months after Curtis Mayfield’s “Superfly” album, “Trouble Man” shared the vocabulary of congas, wah-wah guitar, insistent horns and somber strings that would linger for decades in black music’s depiction of the drug underworld. Boxed Sets of CDs and DVDs for 2012; Critics’ Picks 2012-11-22T21:24:13Z It was the product of careful research in the clubs of Miami, where the songwriters observed soul music evolving into something more supple and insistent and learned the tricks of dancefloor success. The best No 1 records: George McCrae – Rock Your Baby 2012-05-31T20:38:00Z The slow movement unfolded at a steady, almost insistent clip with no trace of sentimentality, yet nice bloom and lyricism in the melodic lines. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Major Return Played Safe 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z Moreover, Yale’s president, Kingman Brewster, proved to be a powerful obstacle to women’s progress at the college, insistent on enforcing the male quota and unwilling to entertain opposing arguments. ‘Not Bad for a Woman’: The Indignities of Life for Yale’s First Female Students 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Biden was long insistent that the point of American engagement in the country was to diminish the threat of Al Qaeda and not to crush the Taliban. Bob Woodward Extends His Trump Chronicles With the Chaotic Transfer of Power 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z This challenge to rigid gender roles was gentle, not insistent. Review: In Anneke Hansen’s ‘2hymn vb,’ a Billowing Gown as Star 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z But the most insistent melodic line in this volume has nothing to do with drugs or celebrity or scandal. Books of The Times: A Writing Stone: Chapter and Verse 2010-10-25T18:28:00Z Trump’s insistent lying as well as his larger-than-life personality allowed him to outmaneuver the American news media in at least two ways. Peter Thiel pulls back the curtain: Donald Trump is a pro-wrestling villain turned president 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z It’s a deep pulse that maintains its insistent rhythm throughout the film’s murmured conversations, life-and-death office intrigues, violence and yearning loves. | 'Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy': ?Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy,? With Gary Oldman - Review 2011-12-09T00:00:43Z His left-hand playing was insistent and brooding; his tempo might best be described as unhurried. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Jazz Piano 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z Mary, being the underdog, is the more insistent. Lessons on the Royal We, from “Mary Queen of Scots” and “The Favourite” 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Each character is an ambitious, inventive artist, and their inability to harmonize creates an undertone of tragedy that grows more insistent as the day wears on. ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’ Review: All the Blues That’s Fit to Sing 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z “I told her I’d be fine with whatever first name she picks as long as it doesn’t lead to the baby being picked on later in life, but she’s pretty insistent on Karen.” Father-to-be asks if he's wrong for dismissing pregnant wife's idea to name daughter 'Karen' 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z His style is insistent, combative, digressive, and the conversation occupies more than four hours. The man behind the great Dickens and Dostoevsky hoax 2013-07-10T16:35:00Z Lentine loves the title poem for its invention of an insistent iris, a rhizomatous perennial that suffers death each fall, only to be reborn in the spring. The symbiotic relationship between poets and the garden 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z She has become increasingly insistent and talks about it nonstop. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: By using fake online profiles to dig up dirt, mother shows her true face 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z I must have heard the insistent drum beat as we head towards the final crisis many times. Madama Butterfly; Cavalleria rusticana; Pagliacci; Pierre-Laurent Aimard – review 2013-06-15T23:05:36Z It’s not just President Trump’s insistent call for the firings or suspensions of NFL players who take a knee during the national anthem to protest police violence. Perspective | The civil rights and Vietnam protests changed America. Today, they might be illegal. 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z There are honest, clear-thinking artists who speak with insistent sincerity, who make work tempered and perfected in self-doubt and humility. Review | America picked artist Martin Puryear’s work for the Venice Biennale — and he’s everything America is not 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z Tolstoy's themes of class division, capitalist amorality and spiritual emptiness resonate with a credit-crunched America; the insistent voice of the car's GPS reminds the two men that "guidance cannot be provided". Bernard Rose: Tolstoy, America and me 2012-12-17T23:11:56Z In “Lost Girls,” his first book, Mr. Kolker has grabbed hold of a ghost story, one he grounds in insistent detail. Books of The Times: Robert Kolker’s ‘Lost Girls’ Delves Into Killings 2013-07-16T16:45:32Z At first the pianos played breathlessly spiraling figures and insistent rhythms, music that nodded to Bartok. Review: The Composer Tristan Perich’s Proudly Lo-Fi Electronic Sounds 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z Aaron never cries but we do share his growing unease as the drip, drip of cumulative dread gradually pools at the base of his mind, insistent but just about ignorable. My streaming gem: why you should watch Creep 2020-06-08T04:00:00Z The black people shaping the culture have grown not just comfortable in their blackness but also defiant in its depiction, insistent in its inextricability from their art. Defining, and Proclaiming, a New Black Power 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Some, particularly the older ones, worry about their heritage being washed away in the insistent flow of white culture. Review | Bernardine Evaristo’s ‘Girl, Woman, Other’ received half a Booker Prize, but it deserves all the glory 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z “Chances Are . . .” is best when it focuses on that tantalizing interplay of past and present, the insistent way that adolescent experiences and parental expectations continue to circumscribe our hopes and dreams. Review | In Richard Russo’s ‘Chances Are . . . ,’ a charming reunion unearths a chilling disappearance 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z It's also popular in the real world, and grows more insistent whenever a predominantly male elite plunges us all into some new calamity. Women rule the world ... but only if it's Made in Dagenham 2010-10-04T10:53:00Z I saw the show twice, and the second time the punchlines had become faster, more insistent, almost as if the best argument he came up with was to keep you laughing. That’s the Funny Thing About Grief 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z But what they’ve also done is create a world so insistent on its own cinema and legacy that it can feel desperately monumental largely — and simply — by good design. Review | Like most sequels, ‘Savage Mode II’ is an underwhelming blockbuster 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z The ticks, glitches and muffled drumbeats of DJ Python’s production mirror the insistent longing Ela Minus sings about in “Kiss You.” 7 Songs We Nearly Missed in 2022 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z He had only spoken to me on the phone and was insistent that I learn about my Scottish heritage. "Sorry to Bother You" speaks the hidden truths of "white voice" out loud 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z During the “Kyrie,” her affection for American minimalism is clear when insistent string writing powers the vocalists’ polyphonic plea for “mercy to all creed and claw.” 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z The movie’s sharp scares, gallows humor, and insidious intelligence are informed by the sensibility, and insistent paranoia, that lurks within the hearts of blacks who must navigate white spaces. Review: The Giant Leap Forward of Jordan Peele’s “Get Out” 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Built on an insistent drum machine beat and prismatic layers of modular synths, the song gradually becomes something more expansive. The Weeknd’s ‘Avatar’ Anthem, and 8 More New Songs 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z They arrive dressed, resting on thick yogurt with an insistent beat of garlic and strewed with more ground beef in sunset slashes of long-broken-down tomatoes and onions. Afghan Delights, Delicate and Rugged, at Sami’s Kabab House in Queens 2017-08-24T04:00:00Z He toyed with buzzing textures and insistent dissonances in a brisk version of “Aquarela do Brasil,” and in his “P’ro Flavio,” a whirlwind of dissonance and pointillistic picking coalesced into yet another upbeat melody. Music Review: Badi Assad Is a Headliner at New York Guitar Festival 2014-01-21T22:43:03Z If Capra yearns for and sometimes attains the transcendent, he is most often insistent that it should be found in the everyday. Frank Capra at the BFI - review 2010-12-18T00:07:26Z This goes some way towards explaining their sultry and melodic but insistent and intricately produced grooves. SXSW 2013: The British are coming! 2013-03-12T12:36:00Z But then: headlights, the thunk of a car door, an insistent knock. Passion and fame in the digital age: Watching 'Sex With Strangers' at the Geffen 2016-03-11T05:00:00Z If the promise had the air of a stunt, he has been straightfacedly insistent since. Over the hills: Quentin Tarantino and the end of Hollywood as we know it 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Mornings came early, heralded first by the neighboring church’s bells at 6 and then by the insistent thwack of the pressoirs, or grape presses. Harvesting Grapes in France, With Champagne as Reward 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z The title song of “The Last Ship” is one of those insistent melodies. Sting, the tireless troubadour Each musician took a solo that suggested a hastily drawn portrait of his style: insistent and bouncy for Mr. Hoiby, methodical and temperate for Mr. Neame, feverish and shrewd for Mr. Eger. Music Review: Phronesis, European Jazz Trio, Performs at Jazz Standard 2013-07-03T20:37:07Z As he wrote in the catalog accompanying his 2019 retrospective at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, “My regular rhythm, my precise gestures, are now out of my control. Everything flows off the paper, insistent, unruly.” At 85, Takesada Matsutani Is Still Preoccupied With the New, and With Glue 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z It pays tribute to Ten Eyck O’Keeffe’s persistence despite little recognition and to her quietly insistent art, some of which survived long enough to be rediscovered. Looking Twice at Renoir and O’Keeffe (Ida, not Georgia) 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z As the Edinburgh International Book Festival enters its final weekend we heed the insistent call of the world outside. Edinburgh International Book festival podcast: Jonathan Steele, Sadakat Kadri and Carlos Gamerro 2012-08-25T11:09:52Z Vocally, "Post Break-Up Sex" and "Blow It Up" shrug their collective shoulders at messy situations, but the insistent momentum hints at ironic contrasts probed by the Strokes a decade ago. Lollapalooza Day 1 in review 2011-08-06T06:57:00Z The sound of his mother’s insistent voice in his head tormented him, causing him pain and leaving his unable to play his drums, according to an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer in 1994. Jim Gordon, Top Rock Drummer With a Troubled Life, Dies at 77 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z End of the World launches from an insistent one-note guitar – we hesitate to call it a motif because it would be counter to the spirit of unadorned rawness and simplicity. New band of the day – No 1,291: Deap Vally 2012-06-19T17:08:22Z What’s mostly missing from “The Gambler” is a sense of why Jim is so insistent on squandering his money, privilege and patrimony. ‘The Gambler’ Stars Mark Wahlberg Indulging in a Habit 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z He’s equally measured and insistent, and never grows too garrulous, even when he’s moving quickly across a leaping range. 14 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z A lot of them are insistent that everybody in the world should conform to what they know for an absolute fact is the one and only truth. Did God help Gabrielle Douglas win? 2012-08-03T15:45:00Z An insistent solo flute breaks through as if to impose some order on the bustling musical strands. Music Review: A Soundtrack for the Chaos, Light and Dark of Creation 2011-01-07T22:54:00Z They speak of a girlish innocence that ill matches the tone of wistful nostalgia and worldly experience that Dahl's insistent references to her childhood and modern stress seek to convey. Delicious Dahl 2010-03-28T00:05:00Z The music, partly updated, was sleek and pulsating and insistent, the 3-D videos precisely coordinated, the setting immersive, the performance deadpan. The Best Concerts of 2012, as Seen by Times Critics 2012-12-26T23:38:02Z Not a plea, but an insistent statement of purpose. The 65 Best Songs of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z He’s like the world’s most insistent salesman, uninhibitedly obsequious and overeager to please, who’s selling nothing but the milk of human kindness. “Keeping Up with the Joneses” and the Marketing of Cinematic Charisma 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z But what shone through most clearly was concentrated emotion of insistent, immediate relevance. Review: Joyce DiDonato Blends Bel Canto and Emotion at Carnegie Hall 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The scene raises many questions, most insistent of which is: what could they have been thinking? ‘Farmed’ out to a white family, I became a skinhead: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje on his first film 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z But by 1794 another Englishman is insistent: he writes that he has seen the sculpture, but that it is too indecent to describe, deserving to be thrown into the volcano. The shock of the old: what the sculpture of Pan reveals about sex and the Romans 2013-03-23T16:49:06Z "Gimme Love" is your basic angular punk song: a couple of insistent, shout-along verses built around a slightly askew set of chords and a bridge that comes just when it should — but still surprises. Sleater-Kinney continues the conversation in 'No Cities to Love' 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z The vocal line with its stentorian triads and insistent repetitions would be easy enough to transcribe, but the unhinged sternness of Mr. Eastman’s delivery might be hard to replicate. Review: American Contemporary Music Ensemble at the Kitchen 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z Dealing with her insistent infant son in the middle of the night, she thinks: “I was defending the last spaces of myself, because he wanted them.” Tessa Hadley’s ‘Clever Girl,’ and More 2014-03-26T20:42:56Z The music turns kinetic and insistent, with interplay between the cello bongos and congas, deceptively charming music that is actually anxious. New Concerto, New Leader: A Big Day at the New York Philharmonic 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z The dissimilarity means that there is an insistent and absorbing tension to their exchanges, which are neither reticent nor flowery. Julian Lage and Chris Eldridge and Their New Record, “Mount Royal” 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Paul Watkins was the soloist here, wonderfully contained and stoically insistent in a work that depicts the cello as a heroic, unflinching champion of individuality against the threats and menace of the orchestra. Prom 8: BBCSO/Adès - review 2013-07-18T09:58:27Z In “Material,” the insistent repetition and metallic twang of those sounds are transformed into music of mysterious theatricality. Review: Yarn/Wire Plucks and Strikes, Rubs and Strums 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Emma, parent to a 3-year-old and pregnant with her second child, is in the most insistent and physically taxing stretch of motherhood. Two women's lives dangerously collide in Harriet Lane's 'Her' 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z “After” author Todd was insistent that Simon & Schuster stay loyal to her fan fiction base. From ‘Fifty Shades’ to ‘After’: Why publishers want fan fiction to go mainstream “Hybrid Fruit” runs a leisurely 8:10 at a steady, insistent pace. Bush Tetras’ Defiant Return, and 10 More New Songs 2023-05-05T04:00:00Z The Impromptu is structured like a Baroque passacaglia, with an insistent chorale-like theme put through myriad tinkling, brash and eerie variations. Review: A Bold Pianist Rescues an Overlooked Concerto 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z You hear them long before you see them: Big, booming sounds bouncing off buildings that grow more insistent and precise in their polyrhythms as they approach. A sisterhood of drummers, 80 strong, keeping time to a Brazilian beat 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Johnson can make you forget about those issues as well as the franchise’s insistent obligations; it also seems like he had a good time at work. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Embraces the Magic and Mystery. Read Our Review. 2017-12-12T05:00:00Z “Small things count,” read a headline in the tiny, insistent pamphlet published by the National War Garden Commission in 1919. Food Supply Anxiety Brings Back Victory Gardens 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Yet despite the obvious layers of artifice, there is something insistent and revealing in these scenes. The Emotion and Artifice of Medical Actors 2016-01-02T05:00:00Z He has a low voice, a startling wardrobe and an ear for sparse but insistent tracks. | Pop: An Indie Rapper, Loud and Proud 2013-12-20T21:03:26Z But the combination of his moral vision, psychological acuity, and insistent narrative force puts him, in my mind at least, in the company of Theodore Dreiser and Russell Banks. A Traitor to His Tribe 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z But as the story progresses the tune’s insistent levity is contradicted by the awful behavior of some pigheaded characters. Movie Review: ‘Love Is All You Need,’ Starring Pierce Brosnan 2013-05-02T23:44:26Z The studio has been unusually insistent in its pleas to critics not to reveal plot points. Review: ‘Blade Runner 2049’ Tries to Honor the Original and to Slip Free of It 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Since we’re back on the subject of Mr. Roth: at 56, he continues to convey both a busy work ethic and an insistent effortlessness. Music Review: Van Halen at Madison Square Garden 2012-02-29T10:18:40Z The music varies from celebratory, high-energy pieces such as Chaal Baby or Punjabi Wedding Song through to the slow, almost hymnal Samaro Mantra, in which brooding brass instrumentation is matched against insistent percussion. Red Baraat: Chaal Baby – review 2012-08-23T21:45:01Z “These vignettes are sharp-eyed, sharp-edged and carefully deployed in a multigenerational jigsaw that’s as evasive as it is evocative. … Yet there is no doubt that this is a contemporary novel, insistent and alive.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z In “Living on Velvet” the Francis and Brent characters meet at a dull society party where they are first seen tied up in conversations about the weather with insistent bores. DVDs: Tough Women and Flawed Men 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z But Tower’s “Night Fields” was probably a more insistent and energetic finale than this already insistent program needed. Fry Street Quartet explores the Earth’s resources in new works 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z On the trail, only an insistent canyon wren and breezes in the cottonwoods broke an enfolding silence. At Bears Ears in Utah, Heated Politics and Precious Ruins 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Its track revolves around an insistent, lo-fi piano figure, and its chorus first arrives with Mr. Legend nearly alone, singing over simple, fading chords: pop with all of its misgivings built in. John Legend: Love Songs That Bow to Dark Shadows 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z At its best, it does its job very well – a mix of bangers and ballads as instant and insistent as anything on commercial radio. Album review: Chris Brown, 'Fortune' 2012-07-02T03:32:00Z Eccles is insistent that fantasy sports and gambling are “completely different categories,” and says a recent survey showed that 70 percent of FanDuel’s players don’t partake in conventional sports betting or play poker for money. How Fake Sports Are Turning Man Cave Dwellers Into Millionaires 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z Timpani are quietly pounded, a softly insistent ceremony, as winds and strings unfurl in long exhalations; you recall the influence on Eastman of Morton Feldman’s vast, glacial expanses of sound. Review: At the Philharmonic, Enveloping and Harrowing Sincerity 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Perhaps it's because, alongside the odd bit of self-criticism, they are all so reassuringly insistent that, in an increasingly complicated world, America just keeps on doing the right thing. And the winner is … Islamophobia 2013-01-15T08:30:03Z My appreciation for Lady Gaga’s act is simple: I like her insistent awkwardness. Lady Gaga Doesn't Preach, Exactly 2010-06-10T17:36:00Z This insistent repetition makes for fairly steamy stuff in the Regency drawing room. How reading aloud can be an act of seduction 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z The programmed beat is thin but insistent, pushing house music toward its Latin foundation, and her voice is the hesitant human element on a purely synthetic dance floor. The Playlist: Radiohead Returns, and Justin Timberlake Trolls the World 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z But he is insistent about the overall political objectivity of the news people, the beat reporters. The Truth Is Hard. But for a New York Times Lawyer, Defending It Is Fun. 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z The Vatican did not say why the pope was so insistent on not having the ring - a simple silver one with a cross - kissed in the long receiving line on Tuesday. To kiss pope's hand - or not - enters the Catholic culture wars 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z Jangling guitars intertwined, dreamy keyboards washed over them, and a chugging bass line pushed along an insistent beat. At Hideout Block Party, a little twang, and little funk Hence, perhaps, the animal prints prowling over the collection, first as a faint impression on the back of a white jacket, then as a more insistent pattern. Special Report: Fashion: Taking the Long View 2010-10-04T18:40:00Z It was Ms. Waters’s intense, single-minded commitment to her brother — conveyed in her insistent correspondence — that caught the attention of the Innocence Project. From Waitress to Brother?s Savior, Then Hollywood Hero 2010-10-12T22:57:00Z As a single mother in "Fruitvale Station," she's frustrated by her son's lack of ambition, enraged at his unnecessary death, insistent on everyone, including herself, taking responsibility. Octavia Spencer can weather 'Black and White' clouds, shine elsewhere 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Some songs are girded by rhythms that are off-balance and jittery but also insistent and relentless. D.C. punks Bad Moves expand their sound but keep their focus on ‘Untenable’ 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Three years later I was brought from a deep sleep at daybreak on my birthday by insistent banging on my door. The moment my marriage was over: 'I had no idea I was living with a drug dealer' 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z In its insistent harmony, it could have just as easily been called “Manifesto.” At 80, Meredith Monk Is Still Seeking Ways to Communicate 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z This disparity – women, money, social poise – is made the insistent undercurrent of the drive to create Facebook and its desperate emphasis on "friends". The Social Network 2010-09-24T17:26:00Z But we soon become aware of insistent constants. ‘Zoe Leonard: Survey’ Review: Diverse, Yet Single-Minded 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z It seems to pursue the psychological condition of exile, in which the strangers, even if they've survived, may well look, and feel, like "insistent phantoms". Poem of the week: Stowaways by Lawrence Sail 2011-01-31T10:20:36Z “The Blinding Light of Dreams” reflects on the history of racism in the South, racing along on an insistent 13-note piano pattern and dodging dissonant interjections from yMusic. Bruce Hornsby’s New Album Is Complex and Untrendy. That’s Why It’s So Good. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z Over minimalist percussion and an insistent guitar vamp, her voice spins ahead of the beat with a jumble of words, then drags behind with a lazy drawl, occasionally fleshing out into stacked harmonies. An Inescapable Voice on "Black Messiah" 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Their songs revolved around folky modal tunes, insistent drones and lyrics with biblical and allegorical overtones. Music Review: Counseling Women on Self-Respect Amid Tunes of Punky Rage 2010-11-21T23:04:00Z Sometimes he conducts eye exams while asking questions, his professional bearing blending with his gentle, insistent manner of interrogation. Review: ‘The Look of Silence’ Confronts Individuals and Ideology of Indonesian Massacre 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Yet despite the offer of tax breaks from countries such as England and Hungary, Boyle was insistent that the film not be shot far from Silicon Valley. Danny Boyle on Steve Jobs: movies must be made about powerful men 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z With an insistent exclamation mark, as if I'd been told several times before. Discover white-knuckle England with this handy holiday guide… 2013-04-27T23:05:40Z It’s why the insistent, quotidian quiet of “Loving” can feel so startling. Review: In ‘Loving,’ They Loved. A Segregated Virginia Did Not Love Them Back. 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z But Lohan was insistent as she left the room. Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie 2013-01-13T17:37:08Z But their insistent pessimism has ground into the otherwise bright synth melodies. Pop & Rock Listings for April 10-16 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z The character — flamboyant, forever peppering his chatter with French phrases and far too insistent that his guests eat the party mix — is at once extroverted and antisocial, a combination easy to overplay. ‘Match,’ Starring Patrick Stewart as a Dance Instructor 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z The resulting style, champeta, is a clattering, insistent mix of chanting, percussion and guitar that veers between the hypnotic, the quirky and the infuriating. Various Artists: Palenque Palenque 2010-06-10T22:10:00Z We had to stop to change scenery, but I was really insistent, and everybody agreed, that we barrel ahead as fast as possible. Carol Burnett talks showbiz’s evolution, gut instinct and what TV shows she’d binge on 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Ochs filtered a litany of heroes and villains through his songs, with an insistent style determined that every word be heard. Film: Tracing the Arc of a Tragic Folk Singer 2010-12-26T02:23:54Z Those studios insistent on serving up more of the same to audiences will get left behind in a rapidly diversifying market. Will Black Panther be Marvel's biggest blockbuster yet? 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, many men, even those sympathetic to Lorena’s story, were insistent that no crime of his could have warranted that specific punishment. I was at the Lorena Bobbitt trial – 25 years later it still makes me wince 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Here, it’s just a weightless comic conceit like the cutout figures who occasionally dance across the screen for no other purpose than to buoy an already giddy tone of insistent levity. ‘Chinese Puzzle,’ a Comedy Directed by Cedric Klapisch 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z And “Plain Spoken” is his latest in a series of lean, rootsy albums made with the producer T Bone Burnett, its title an insistent reassurance. Review: John Mellencamp, Still Defiant, at the Apollo Theater 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z Hutchings didn’t try to sound like Mitchell, but instead gave listeners a taste of the brawny, insistent tenor sax sound that we hadn’t heard the previous day in his appearance with Ganavya. Long Play Rises to the Top of New York Classical Music Festivals 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z The most absorbing part of “Hush” is about tinnitus, an insistent ringing that is familiar to many who still feel the after-effects of a loud concert the morning after. The Noises That We Try Not to Hear 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z He was insistent about everything: that people apologize, that he bring hot tea to his evening doorman, that deodorant and body spray are one and the same, that I drink more water. Are Bitcoins More Real Than Boyfriends? 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z “David” takes a basic blues pattern and turns it into a bouncy, insistent piece on the many reasons why the titular ex-boyfriend is getting the boot. Coachella music fest: 10 picks out of 166 acts 2014-04-09T17:36:48Z The band used to simply propel Mr. Darnielle’s succinct melodies and his friendly but insistent voice; now it has finer calibrations. New Music: New Albums by Mountain Goats, Kurt Elling and Trash Talk 2012-10-09T01:10:07Z In the second movement of the Third Symphony, a lyrical phrase travels around the orchestra, innocuous enough, but its insistent repetition becomes eerie, especially when the violins pluck over it like spiders. Hearing the Mystery in Sibelius 2011-08-15T21:18:14Z Thanks largely to a low, insistent tremolo created by sound designer Ed Clarke, the production also sustains a mood of fear for 80 minutes. Fear – theatre review 2012-06-26T18:00:01Z There is also a quiet and insistent empathy. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z At last check, there's been no official word yet from FOX, but the interwebs are insistent that this week's theme is all about the blue suede shoes. Monday's 'American Idol' news: Elvis. 'nuf said. 2010-04-12T18:01:00Z That is the unifying, unassailable Ryan Murphy signature: an insistent style dating back to "Nip/Tuck," and probably before that, although I never saw the set of "Popular." The problem with Ryan Murphy, a potent Hollywood advocate with a habit of crossing the wrong lines 2023-10-08T04:00:00Z There were a handful of exceptions, though: A few insistent bruisers in the crowd started a mosh pit, generously tossing one another around. Agalloch, on Tour With ‘The Serpent & the Sphere’ 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Dre is just as insistent on giving them the whole story, so that they can be better prepared for an unfair world. “Black-ish” is fearless: Its brilliant take on police brutality mixes heartbreak and hope 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Immersed in these sheaths, Hiro uses fabric dye and oil pastel to draw insistent whirls and dashes, inscribe rib-like patterns, invoke dark chasms and indulge in radiant splurges of tangerine, teal, gold, scarlet. The human cocoon: Naotaka Hiro's primal art, made from within 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z The last category, where women will be insistent on splitting it, even after the man counter-offers, he says happens around 5% of the time. Paying while dating: meet the men who pick up the check (and those who don't) 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z A small, insistent and finally irresistible voice in my head just kept saying: “Nope, Thomas Cromwell definitely didn’t say that.” By the Book: Ben Macintyre 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z To dedicated mountaineers, an unconquered — and believed unconquerable — peak is an irresistible, insistent taunt on their to-do lists. Review: ‘Meru’ Follows an Expedition Up Shark’s Fin Peak in the Himalayas 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z To hear the prelude to the opera’s second scene, with its brass fanfares and insistent thwacks of deep percussion, you would think the characters were approaching Valhalla, not the modest town of Sant’Eufemia. Review: San Francisco Opera’s ‘Two Women’ Depicts War’s Horror at High Pitch 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z Anna’s cool, thin never-changing appearance—with the same bobbed hair and trademark sunglasses—pleased the fashionistas, usually insistent on the latest look. Anna Wintour and Tina Brown: Inside their Condé Nast rivalry 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Cooper is insistent, constantly citing penal code sections for why things must be done just so. Left cold by 'Hot Pursuit' 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z Hemingway, insistent to the end that drinking helped him, called liquor “the only mechanical relief” against the oppressions of modern life. ‘The Trip to Echo Spring’: On the trail of writers and drinking 2014-01-10T21:58:25Z Faster-moving water also means that the river may be more insistent than it would otherwise be about where it wants to go as it wends its way to its final home in the Gulf. At the Mouth of the Mississippi, a Weird and Fragile Beauty 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z The lead single, “Up Jumped Spring,” finds them pushing Freddie Hubbard’s waltzing jazz standard to an insistent clip: Mr. Smith’s pedaled bass and Mr. Kreisberg’s taut guitar playing goad and tug at each other. The Playlist: The Hold Steady Get Revved Up and 9 More New Songs 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Then the solo piano embarks on a sudden flurry of insistent strangeness, a sound unmistakably atonal in a brief 20-second burst. 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Beethoven 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z But there’s always tension somewhere: in a tinge of dissonance, in an insistent syncopation, in the spaces she refuses to fill in. Review: ‘Me,’ by Empress Of, Has Cool Assurance and Jumpy Lines 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z Over the past several years, a small but insistent run of movies has explored the joys, challenges and healing power of something that is ever rarer in the digital age: human isolation. 'Wild' and 'Tracks' Explore Isolation 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Edith wasn’t, like Moore’s Mary Richards, a spirited young professional seeking traction in a mostly male workplace, nor was she like Arthur’s Maude, a brassy, clamorously insistent personality. Jean Stapleton, 90, beloved Edith Bunker on ‘All in the Family,’ dies 2013-06-02T03:01:52Z The pulse of the scherzo was insistent in a nervy, exciting fashion that contrasted well with the luxurious way Mr. Dudamel lingered over the third movement’s airier meditations. Review: Dudamel and Los Angeles Bring the Noise to New York 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z But then I also felt this endogenous, strangely insistent feeling that I did have worth. Misery and Megalomania: How David Adjmi Became a Playwright 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z The range of her case studies implies that another damper on the American imagination has been an insistent exceptionalism — the belief that political collapse is something that happens elsewhere. ‘How Civil Wars Start,’ a Warning About the State of the Union 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z They played pizzica, a style said to cure snake bites, thanks to the pounding, hypnotic effect of the insistent frame drum, matched with fiddle, bagpipes, accordion and five-part harmonies. Womad festival 2013-07-29T09:54:17Z Those composers include some from Luther’s time and some from our time, and instrumental chorale preludes appear in Swingle Singers-like vocalise, without the insistent perkiness. The 25 Best Classical Music Recordings of 2017 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z I love the kaleidoscopic subtleties of this music, the sure sense of craft with which its colors and textures cohere, the insistent energy with which it carries one to its riotous close. Muti's return to CSO leaves hall abuzz with the excitement of old music and new 2011-05-06T16:26:00Z A slow-burning track with an insistent funk vibe, it presented a groovier sound for the band, one that drove passers-by to full-on dance mode. Coachella fest outdoes itself as a rollicking Sim City 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Throughout the track Mr. Gupta pushes the band ahead with a loose, insistent clatter, using his entire kit. The Playlist: Frank Ocean Rescues ‘Moon River,’ and 10 More New Songs 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z Trump met with Carson multiple times and even called his wife, Candy, so insistent on bringing him on board that Carson’s friends joked he should ask for the secretary of state position. Ben Carson, or the tale of the disappearing Cabinet secretary 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z “And I am insistent on not being erased.” Everything Here Is Tabboo! 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The Modern Lovers are very insistent about the importance of their art, confident that their sound, their style, and their inherent coolness were vital and unique. Modern Lovers 33 1/3 Excerpt 2017-09-02T04:00:00Z The elderly man is undertaking a cross-country pilgrimage with an insistent determination. Paul Mazursky made incisive, edgy comedies without a mean streak 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z “But we have populists strutting the stage. We have fascism. We have war in Europe. Brecht could comment on those in urgent and insistent ways.” At the Salzburg Festival, Bertolt Brecht Will Keep Confronting Chaos 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z A thousand regulations and prohibitions take the place of law, while justice is destroyed by an insistent appeal to the most sordid, cruel and mean-spirited elements in human nature. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z As Bruce Willis chases the virtual band across the desert, Bobby Womack explodes through the chorus, and that cool, insistent refrain of "Overload, overload, overload" just doesn't stop. Ten Grammy nominees that don't suck 2011-02-12T17:10:00Z It's a collection of slight but insistent, lugubrious voices, circling round the burgeoningly gay body of the young Williams. Caledonia; The Gospel at Colonus; Vieux Carr? 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z Cannes is exceedingly insistent on what it calls protocol, rituals that everyone from stars to journalists must follow. Critic’s Notebook: James Gray Makes His Way on the Cannes Star Circuit 2013-05-26T21:37:19Z Its final stretch, tootling and pounding over an insistent drone, may be a deathbed revelation, as Murphy belts, “Go into the light!” Paramore Steps Into a New Era, and 8 More New Songs 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z This is a buoyant production, based off a flicker of the “Murder She Wrote” bass line, and the 39-year-old musician sounds loose and insistent rapping over it, emphasizing the title over and over again. The Playlist: Young Thug Turns the Summer’s Big Meme Into a Standout Track 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z “Deuces,” a hit last year, is an insistent kiss-off, a happy sneer: “You’ll regret the day when I find another girl, yeah.” Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-21T22:23:57Z What have become all-too-familiar 21st-century refrains — too much information, too little time and the diminished attention spans that result from trying to cope — have only grown more insistent through the decade. Music: Want a Hit? Keep It Simple 2010-12-31T19:49:03Z In more standard repertory, however, Mr. Karoui too often conducts as if the dancers had no other task than to keep up with his insistent pace. Critic?s Notebook: At City Ballet This Winter, You Could Sometimes See the Music 2011-02-28T23:15:07Z And he was so respectful but insistent about important things, balance and intonation, the basics.” National Symphony Orchestra names rising star Gianandrea Noseda as music director 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z He keeps warning his increasingly insistent partner/patient against apophenia — the idea that random events are, in fact, connected in some meaningful way. Dan Chaon’s ‘Ill Will’ is the scariest novel of the year 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z But then the Sanditon Sisterhood stepped in, a decidedly vocal and insistent group of fans whose voices gained traction after the stateside airing of the first season. "I wrote endless drafts": "Sanditon" boss on the pressures of giving Jane Austen fans closure 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z What is clear is that while there are several stories folded into “Iris” — a marriage tale, an ode to multiculturalism and a fashion spectacular — it is also about the insistent rejection of monocultural conformity. Review: In ‘Iris,’ Albert Maysles Explores Iris Apfel’s Style 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z I was attracted by his salt-and-pepper hair as much as by his insistent optimism and joie de vivre in the face of the unknown, and we quickly developed a comfortable repartee. Modern Love: Ready to Take a Faithful Leap 2011-07-14T20:19:03Z Another huge stumbling block for distributors: The Dodgers were insistent on owning their own channel rather than airing the games on an existing outlet. Dodgers remain off most TVs in L.A. as dispute continues 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The vice mayor is insistent that there be no delays, and Zhou resigns himself to the hopeless task. In ‘The Dog,’ Jack Livings Writes of a Modernizing China 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z He was full of understanding for the strains and temptations of the young, convinced that condemnation is not enough, and insistent on the responsibility of parents and of us all. Mods and Rockers an urgent priority for MPs: From the archive, 24 June 1964 2013-06-24T06:30:00Z “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.” Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z Many of the girlfriends and wives say they are insistent on not using their tennis boyfriends to boost their own careers. Singles Become Doubles 2013-08-30T21:03:03Z It’s a great, trenchant piece of writing, irresistibly insistent in its repetitive accusations. ‘For Colored Girls’ Review: Ntozake Shange’s Women Endure 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The words of his verse are often forged together by insistent sound, the orchestration of which is extraordinarily powerful, and helps sustain semantic links. Andrei Voznesensky obituary 2010-06-03T18:01:00Z Boredom is certainly one of the central concerns in “The Evenings,” as Frits frequently notes the insistent march of the hours. ‘The Evenings,’ a Dutch Classic, Arrives in English. It Only Took 70 Years. 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Nearly all the songs announce themselves with insistent hooks and gallop ahead from there, gathering more instruments as they go. Critics? Choice: New CDs by the New Pornographers and the Hold Steady 2010-05-02T20:55:00Z But Trump’s brazenness and his insistent “assertion of prerogative,” the authors write, could teach us something by shining a klieg light on the shadowy corners of executive power. How Trump Is Remaking the Highest Office in His Own Image 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z In these late photographs, he is dwarfed by the scenery, but his suited silhouette is no less insistent a reminder that belonging is always also performing. Tseng Kwong Chi, an “Ambiguous Ambassador” to Life in America 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z "I am the sensor," he said, unusually insistent in response to suggestions that the piece be interactive and open-source. T Magazine: Bright Idea 2012-11-29T22:30:55Z The show’s strengths are its writing and Oliver’s insistent delivery. John Oliver's 'Last Week Tonight' 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z Midway through Angelique Kidjo's joyous, insistent concert as part of the annual Grand Performances series in downtown Los Angeles, the Benin-born singer and bandleader paused to address the thousands surrounding her. Angelique Kidjo delivers urgent, resonant joy to California Plaza 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z As a photographer, Mr. Namkung had an instinctive eye for the insistent shapes in nature: a sandbar’s ripples, a fir forest’s verticals, a grass field’s breeze-combed swirls. Fine-art photographer Johsel Namkung dies 2013-07-27T22:29:36Z I’ve been intending to write a book for a decade, and the itching is getting more insistent. How to write a novel this year: 'I'm surprised at how much time I find' 2017-01-07T05:00:00Z But the environment also served as a fitting partner for the brightly insistent music of Terry Riley. A Musical Solstice Spectacle Sprawls Across New York 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z Anderson and Roe showed two voices speaking as one; Davies and Namekawa were distinct individuals, he warmer, powerful and fuller, she insistent and percussive. Two pianists show the difference between playing and performing 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z Many of the songs are insistent and occasionally menacing. David Bowie: Back to His Mysterious Best 2013-03-07T12:00:25Z Grima and Herda push back against the eccentric, insistent architecture of the Cultural Center, installing work in its courtyard and stairwells and across its front facade. In Chicago, an ambitious biennial for architecture banishes the stars and anoints a new generation 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z “Despite an insistent voice in my head telling me to look away, I continued to observe, bending my head farther down for a closer view,” Mr. Talese wrote in the article. Gay Talese Defends ‘The Voyeur’s Motel’ 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Her saxophone sound is insistent, mournful and devout, all at once; mostly, it’s inspiring. 12 Pop, Rock and Jazz Concerts to Check Out in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Everything about it is urgent, anguished, insistent and seductive, while the cardinal looks on it with the slightly jaded, bored countenance of a veteran shopper. Review | This 16-century Spanish sculptor changed how his country looked at religious art 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Even as we want to focus on the often entrancing stage pictures, the insistent murmur of voices keeps nudging us to look up to the titles to discover what is being said. Theater Review: ‘Shun-kin,’ Japanese Intrigue, at Lincoln Center Festival 2013-07-10T21:58:34Z If anything, the album may be a little overfull of wisdom, a little too insistent in its credibility. Has Chris Stapleton Cracked the Country Code? 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z These moments are swamped, however, by the author’s insistent intellect and her gift for turning over rich soil. Natasha Trethewey’s Poems Take Wing on Intimate Details 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z Bearing out Williams’s credo of affordable housing for even the most modest young families, the exteriors carry insistent remnants of Williams’s architectural input. A Photographer Follows Paul Revere Williams Into the West 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z Puts has gotten from Glass’s Minimalism a taste for using repeated figurations as a kind of sonic carpeting, but his repetitions are much less insistent. Review: ‘The Hours’ Will Bring Renée Fleming Back to the Met 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z On Monday, the rage would ebb, to be replaced by terror, which would reach a pitch on Tuesday night, after which I would write what seemed to me not sentences, but tiny, insistent stabs. ‘Alcoholism continues long after you stop drinking': my 15 years sober 2017-06-24T04:00:00Z The piece accompanies two other abstractions, including an untitled painting featuring a loosely rendered hand amid insistent passages of black, white and gray. The Many Styles of Emma Amos, and Her Drive to Get Free 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z While the program explored generations of Viennese pupils and teachers, their performance was determinedly youthful: insistent, engrossed, exhilarating and just a bit exhausting. Review | Arod Quartet’s program explores generations, but its performance is determinedly youthful 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z As Barrow played the song’s insistent bass pattern in a chair a few feet from a hunched-over Gibbons, Utley extracted shivering notes from his guitar with a slide. Portishead at the Aragon: The wait was worth it 2011-10-13T05:07:00Z Stephenson, appropriately enough, is more declamatory and insistent, which suits his characterisation wonderfully well. Lucia di Lammermoor – review 2012-06-08T17:03:40Z The movie’s misogyny is not the sole property of its characters, nor is the humiliation and objectification of women — an insistent, almost compulsive motif — something it merely depicts. Movie Review: DiCaprio Stars in Scorsese’s ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ 2013-12-24T20:02:17Z Mike Pham went more abstract but no less insistent in his solo "I Love You, I Hate You." Reviews: Mischief and attitude in dance, theater pieces at OtB's Northwest New Works showcase 2010-06-07T18:52:00Z Her colleagues gathered at the edges of the pool, their insistent motifs underpinning Ms. Richards’s elegiac solo. Music Review: Asphalt Orchestra Enlivens Lincoln Center 2010-08-05T19:55:00Z Simsion’s unlikely hero, Don Tillman, reminded me of the comic charms of two other protagonists whose insistent voices slip easily into the reader’s consciousness. Dear Match Book: Funny Pages 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z Politically a leftist, Ms. Jones became an insistent activist. Elayne Jones, Pioneering Percussionist, Is Dead at 94 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z What we like is the very focused way he set about building his business, being very insistent that he was building a real business with real revenues and real customers. Location game SCVNGR raises $15m from Balderton 2011-01-04T13:00:00Z If someone is really insistent that we not listen to a song, I’ll skip it. Can You Like a Movie or Song That Has Something Wrong? Times Readers Respond 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z But as I close the computer and get up to answer the door, there’s another, even louder tap-tap-tap, and a more insistent “Housekeeping!” Perspective | Travelers have plenty of reservations about hotels 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z He was insistent that the work be done there, collaboratively. The Tribe Flies High Like a Dove 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z But — whether by dint of plague, unsympathetic bishop, flood or vanity’s insistent whisper — the world just keeps happening to them. Bad Bishops, Bloodletting and a Plague of Caterpillars 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z The players took this spirit and ran with it with a vigorous, insistent engagement. Review | One of the greatest music events in Washington this year is happening at the Phillips 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z Many of us have never been more aware of that longing, with its insistent pain and hope, than during these months of pandemic. ‘Lungs’ Review: Claire Foy and Matt Smith Chase Love in the Dark 2020-06-28T04:00:00Z Beneath 20 Feet Tall's shimmering strings and electric piano there are both disquieting electronics and an insistent creak. Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh | CD review 2010-04-01T14:35:00Z Individual voices break free in yearning, sometimes anguished arcs as the texture grows ever more complex, insistent and fierce. So You Want to Be a Socially Distanced Orchestra 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z Here, over slow, groaning production by the Haxan Cloak, he sings high, tender and insistent, then breaks out into ecstatic harmonies à la Jodeci that resolve into church solemnity. The Playlist: Young Thug Turns the Summer’s Big Meme Into a Standout Track 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z A couple of seasons later, he still doesn't know very much about the sport he's coaching and falls back on insistent kindness to hide his panic attacks. The "Ted Lasso" way gets tested in the beloved show's third season 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z Frustratingly, when that song hits its stride, there's a nod to that insistent drive that made the Pumpkins in their prime so urgent, which means Oceania isn't without merit. The Smashing Pumpkins: Oceania – review 2012-06-21T20:30:02Z In a genre that overwhelmingly favors male performers, she’s a bright star with an insistent voice, on her way to a compelling solo career. Music Review: Bachata Fest at Central Park SummerStage 2010-08-15T22:31:00Z Isa’s insistent whimpering as various horrors are visited upon her becomes so grating you may sigh in relief when a gag is finally stuffed into her mouth. | 'Kidnapped': Intruders at the Window, and Then a Nightmare 2011-06-16T23:26:26Z Much like spring peepers, a small but vocal species of frog, Bullfrog appeared not with the roar of a large corporate-backed enterprise but with a number of small, insistent cries for attention. How an upstart baker helped bring respect to D.C.’s bagel scene 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z He doesn’t want to be the help – and his exchange with Strand, who is both appreciative and insistent, was amazing – but he saves the day. Fear the Walking Dead recap: season two, episode three – Ouroboros 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z The Mike Wallace who dominated interviews with nosy, insistent, “gotcha” questions that sought the truth. How Mike Wallace changed TV journalism: "You had to compete" 2019-07-27T04:00:00Z The newest writings remind us that King’s insistent “quest for radical black citizenship” made him far from comforting to large segments of the American population. Martin, Malcolm and the Fight for Equality 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z It is true that some of us let ourselves be taken in by their insistent and electric caresses. Street of the Iron Po(e)t, Part XII 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z Coppola’s guard goes up slightly when the subject turns to her family: she keeps a determinedly low public profile, insistent that her daughters’ lives go largely uninterrupted by her career and her travels. Sofia Coppola: ‘I never felt I had to fit into the majority view’ 2017-07-02T04:00:00Z Into this banal life steps a mighty insistent spirit, the shade of a dead woman who seems unhealthily interested in the little girl. Anne Rice's 'Prince Lestat,' and More 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z But it’s also a symbol for certain insistent myopias of masculinity. The Men Who Still Love “Fight Club” 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Instead there is the sound of wind in the treetops, and the insistent hammering of a pileated woodpecker. South Mountain Reservation in Essex County, N.J. 2012-07-12T21:26:53Z Like the bodies she paints, her peculiarities are stubbornly present, convincing, insistent and irreducible. Review | Suzanne Valadon modeled for some of the world’s greatest artists. Then she became one. 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The second movement is an insistent, jagged fugue, though Bartok’s flights break free from the formal confines. Patricia Kopatchinskaja in A Little Night Music 2014-08-24T04:00:00Z If July feels her own signal is weak, September’s is strong and insistent. ‘Sisters’ Builds a Gothic Plot to an Artful and Shocking Climax 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z It is the perverse, insistent, matter-of-factness of male sexual predation and assault — of men’s power over women — that haunts the revelations about Mr. Weinstein. Harvey Weinstein Is Gone. But Hollywood Still Has a Problem. 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z Walk along 34th Street on a Sunday evening and you may catch a hint of the dueling trumpets and insistent rhythms swirling in the air. Watch These Captivating Salsa Dancers, and Try Not to Break a Sweat 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Mr. Dylan is now a full participant in instrumental passages, too, framing songs with his piano parts or picking insistent guitar lines. Music Review: A Jovial Dylan Celebrates Reopening of Capitol Theatre 2012-09-05T11:35:10Z Even as a young girl, I was very proud and stubborn and insistent that I was going to take on the world on these terms. Catherine Breillat, legendary provocateur, on her sexual manifesto on film and why she hates porn 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z And you really should listen to this insistent voice from the past. How Rupert Murdoch Became the King of England 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z “Circling through their modal guitar lines and galloping along on their drumbeats, the songs were insistent and determined but also headed for the ecstatic,” Jon Pareles wrote about Songhoy Blues in The New York Times. Pop, Rock & Cabaret Listings for June 12-18 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Worse, with the exception of Luke, her other siblings dismiss her insistent claims that the house is still haunting her as manufactured drama. Netflix’s “The Haunting of Hill House” will keep you up at night 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z Quietly insistent, her performances in recent fare have made her a forerunner for that most uneasy of titles: scream queen. Maika Monroe: The thinking woman’s scream queen 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z Only a super-confident model could pull off so insistent a fashion statement. Art Review: ?African Innovations? at Brooklyn Museum - Review 2011-09-01T12:00:00Z They understood that we were pretty insistent on it being subtitled. Must-Read TV: The Bridge's Elwood Reid on Getting America to Watch Subtitles 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Also strange was that the crowd seemed less engaged once the band joined Graves, despite an insistent beat and authoritative, fuzzed-out guitars on “Family and Genius.” Shakey Graves offers something new to nu-folk | Concert review 2014-11-17T05:00:00Z The album’s opening track, “Burn the Witch,” is a spiral of tension, cryptically portraying a society ignoring its own witch hunts as a clattery, insistent string arrangement ratchets up the dissonance and agitation. Review: In Radiohead’s ‘A Moon Shaped Pool,’ Patient Perfectionism 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z The music is anchored by a sustained pedal tone, with searching intervals floating above and bits of phrases that slowly coalesce into an insistent five-note theme. Incidental Music in ?Winter?s Tale? and ?Merchant of Venice? 2010-07-19T21:26:00Z Something about this broody track — its slowish, insistent beat, its close harmonies, its combination of fuzzy and bright synths — stops short of despair. The Playlist: Black Eyed Peas Get Serious About Injustice, and 12 More New Songs 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z They exemplify an insistent sense of American can-do, the instinctive pursuit of art and, in a way, happiness. American Folk vs. Academic Art 2013-01-31T13:00:00Z A bit like her top-floor studio, which has resisted the insistent creep of luxury Brooklyn redevelopment, Puckette makes paintings today much like she did 25 years ago. In the Studio With an Artist Devoted to the Line 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Marriage “is both the most public and the most secret of institutions, its miseries as irritatingly insistent as a hacking cough, its private malaise less easily diagnosed.” For P.D. James, literary success came late in life, and continues in a new book 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z He was insistent that the dancers do everything on their toes, like Highland dancers, whose heels almost never touch the ground. When City Center Was Balanchine’s House 2018-10-26T04:00:00Z But Samet is maybe too insistent that the truth of the Civil War has been irrevocably lost to fanciful delusion. ‘Looking for the Good War’ Says Our Nostalgia for World War II Has Done Real Harm 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z But the kids were insistent in their need to remain tethered to the Internet, and the house appeared to have no WiFi. On Mexico’s coast, skip the resort and rent a house for an immersive vacation experience 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z And collectively they summon a world propelled and poisoned by insistent appetite, of the dangers of wanting too much and reflecting too little. | 'King Lear': He?s a Grumpy Old Man, but Don?t Dare Run Away 2011-05-06T14:33:07Z The insistent sexualization of girls and women from an early age sends a very clear message — to boys, too — about who the gatekeepers of purity are supposed to be. The evangelical purity trap for women: “A lamb outside of your marriage bed and a tiger in it” 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z We shouldn't downplay or discount younger generations' displeasure in the insistent structure and rule-abiding religion demands. How "Rick and Morty" and "Loki" built thoughtful altars to apathy for everything we hold dear 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z If reedy organ samples and insistent, repetitive rhythms suggested an inheritance from Mr. Glass, concision and a holistic integration of digital media indicated Mr. Muhly’s divergent path. Music Review: Tune-In Music Festival Salutes Philip Glass 2012-02-28T23:15:03Z Songs are built with contrasting sections and insinuating melodies, and the tracks are fortified with live instruments: guitar, trumpet, drums and most often a piano, playing stark, insistent clusters. New Albums From Jesse Winchester, Lia Ices and Others 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Ann is a different kind of artist, and a less insistent presence in the film. ‘Annette’ Review: Love Hurts 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Instead of the insistent dancefloor push of contemporary R&B, the Weeknd is a closer cousin to the creepier, slower tracks in Nine Inch Nails’ discography. Album review: The Weeknd, 'Echoes of Silence' 2012-01-12T22:32:00Z Her work seems to have begun in relatively restrained feminist consciousness raising and become more public, insistent and wide ranging, often presaging appropriation art and relational aesthetics as it goes. Art Review: Sanja Ivekovic?s ?Sweet Violence? at Museum of Modern Art - Review 2011-12-15T23:26:19Z The settings are wonderfully spare and insistent, with accompaniments from guitar, piano and violin. Lang: Death Speaks; Depart – review 2013-06-06T20:15:02Z There is also an insistent rumour that will become a film. What they're reading in Spain 2011-03-28T07:00:01Z She was insistent that OWN would represent her talk show's message of self-empowerment writ large across an entire channel. OWN shakeup tests Winfrey, Discovery relationship 2012-03-21T16:12:12Z "People wonder why their kids don't want to be scientists and engineers," Druyan said, her gentle voice growing insistent. 'Cosmos' co-creator Ann Druyan looks back in wonder on her odyssey 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z But it’s charmingly true to the character, who in retrospect has the kind of insistent energy, nosiness and thirst for attention that makes him perfect for late-night. Muppet Meta Mania, Revived for the Streaming Era 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z She wants to know how to explain this archive of black death insistent on his inclusion. Now that another black body has been laid to rest: George Floyd and the white gaze 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z There are, of course, headaches to manage — intoxicated patrons, and insistent videographers — but he prides himself on doing so with civility. The Boss Is Back on Broadway. The Workers Are Coming Back, Too. 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z Or was I still above a buzz, afraid to be under the influence, insistent I could have a fine time completely sober? I take to drinking 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z However, that's also a film where abortion is the driving force with the women at the heart of the story struggling to break free of multiple insistent forces clawing to keep them in their place. "Unpregnant" takes a serious subject and makes it the reason for a road trip 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Its salty humor and insistent pop culture knowingness was fun for a minute, before the sequels got nudging and formulaic. ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ Review: Swashbuckling Again 2022-12-19T05:00:00Z The new pink is aglow with outrage and the insistent demand that past wrongs be rectified. Perspective | For Nancy Pelosi and the new women in Congress, fashion was a defiant statement of purpose — and resistance 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The letters, the pleas, became more insistent as the war approached, and as Laemmle grew ill and frail. Unlike His Peers, a Studio Chief Saved Jews From the Nazis 2014-04-11T12:00:02Z It remains a question of an insistent, unanswerable kind. Julian Barnes and the Shostakovich Wars 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z The mezzo-soprano Sara Murphy sang with poise and emotive force in the ominous third movement, her words underpinned by an insistent ostinato. American Symphony Orchestra Samples the 20th Century 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z Whoever you are, whatever your situation, whispers can be insistent, skeletons have a habit of rat-tat-tatting on the closet door. My favourite Hitchcock: Strangers on a Train 2012-08-02T16:55:00Z The voice is soft but insistent, the rage thunderous and the backdrop — war, famine, civil unrest — as familiar as the news. | 'Coriolanus': Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave in ?Coriolanus? - Review 2011-12-01T23:36:25Z Scored for alto flute, bass clarinet, vibraphone/crotales, piano, violin, cello and electronic sounds and conducted here by Ransom Wilson, “The Light Within” unfolds with a somber, insistent propulsion. Review: John Luther Adams’s ‘The Light Within’ Highlights Ensemble Program at National Sawdust 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Whether it’s a spirited child or a determined teen, every family has its own noisy rooster: insistent, persistent, exasperating at times, and with a song that must be sung — and should be heard. The perfect children’s book for kids who won’t be quiet 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z “He was persistent and insistent, and he convinced me to meet him again,” she said. The six women who accused Harvey Weinstein at his trial, and what they said 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The clonking synth and fuzzy, distant guitar solo of “Origins” couldn’t be more different from the silky, smooth piano and insistent maracas on “My Better Self.” For the band Tennis, Being Cute Isn?t Just a Gimmick 2012-02-15T13:00:21Z His manner was a perfect blend of Washington and New York: schmoozy, deferential, insistent. Perspective | Here’s to Washington’s Victor Shargai: A fan, a catalyst, a mensch of the theater 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z When Shore set up the show, he was insistent that the diseases be a vehicle for a broader drama full of psychological twists and ethical dilemmas. House: the science of drama 2010-10-05T05:59:00Z Kempff spins Molly’s suspicions about a mysterious tapping noise into an insistent entry in the horrors of breakdown and isolation. ‘Knocking’ Review: Domestic Disturbances 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z The painting’s insistent materiality incites covetousness, in defiance of its vast and unpossessable subject. Overlooked Works That Deserve Another Glance 2010-12-30T23:21:19Z His breakthrough film, “The Blind Side,” its successor, “Saving Mr. Banks,” and now “The Founder” are united by the same idea: the discovery of latent value through insistent, forceful intervention. “The Founder”: A Fast-Food Visionary on Shaky Moral Ground 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z A brisk midtempo beat clicks and ticks quietly through the tracks, with unassertive bass lines almost humming to themselves; later the propulsion becomes just slightly more insistent. Playlist: Melodic Wanderings, Starting in Timbuktu 2011-01-09T02:34:14Z The tempo was reined in just enough so that the insistent three-note rhythmic riff that runs through the aria had clarity and point without any rigidity, whether in Ms. Leonard’s singing or the orchestra. Metropolitan Opera Opens With ‘Le Nozze di Figaro’ 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z Rather than marshal us to the laugh, Lee lets it ebb and flow – now within reach, now just without – on the tide of his insistent, repetitious delivery. Stewart Lee ? review 2010-10-22T21:17:00Z But the music of the Stone Temple Pilots wasn’t particularly heavy, if by heavy we mean single-mindedly dark or insistent or falling apart before your ears. Scott Weiland, a Symbolic Voice of the Shifting ’90s Rock Scene 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z But at a certain point, the feeling arrives that a message is being thrust upon you by stiff, insistent arms. Theater Review: ‘Casa Valentina,’ a New Play by Harvey Fierstein 2014-04-24T02:00:16Z But when it came to my own beauty craziness, and the insistent voice in my head that drove me to it, I simply didn’t care to question. My year without makeup 2013-01-10T01:00:00Z Some readers may find Black's insistent use of modern vernacular a jarring irritation, but it's a spirited, enthusiastic read, enjoyably combining evidence-based history with considerable creative licence. First novels: Catherine Taylor's roundup - reviews 2011-02-26T00:07:44Z The piece moves to a single insistent pulse, with a whole lot happening within that pulse. Seattle Modern Orchestra explores 'Layers of Time' 2012-01-26T21:19:04Z I Don't Bite and Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt flourish under this visceral approach, but the subtlety and intelligence of other songs, including After Hours, is lost under Burrows's insistent pounding. We Are Scientists – review 2012-07-26T15:42:48Z This also happens to the part of the "Colin in Black and White" that works best, especially once Kaepernick pulls back on his insistent narration of his teenage version's inner thoughts. Netflix's new Colin Kaepernick series is as ambitious but not quite as successful as its subject 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z Often he’ll land on an ostinato pattern, repeating an insistent phrase until it becomes its own song. Orrin Evans Has Been Playing Jazz for Years. So Why Is He a Rising Star? 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z He then hurriedly moves to Bangkok, where an insistent transgender “ladyboy” becomes his guide and guardian. Music Review: Collaboration at 72 Beats Per Minute 2011-06-26T21:54:06Z Its “anti-narration” had the flavor of modernist writing in its main character’s insistent refusal to engage with what is supposed to be noteworthy in a story. Inspiration Information: 'The Whispering Muse' 2014-05-13T04:00:00Z After all, the essay, in its American incarnation, is a direct outgrowth of the sermon: argumentative, insistent, not infrequently irritating. What Makes an Essay American 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z The result felt like an assemblage of thistle-like fragments, insistent little motifs that hang together before dissolving. Review: A New York Philharmonic Contact! Menu, With Esa-Pekka Salonen as Chef 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z Urals takes nine minutes for a bubbling, Drexciya-like synth line to congeal into something hard, insistent and faintly glamorous, with echoes of early Chicago house. Walls, A*M*E, All Dom Wrong: this week's new tracks 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z A documentary film on the life and times of James Brown as the times made the music and the music shaped the times, it is a long, soulful scream over an insistent funky vamp. HBO's 'My Dynamite' focuses on James Brown, the performer 2014-10-26T04:00:00Z In many cases, the ordinary life itself, with its insistent drip of isolation, sameness, sadness and loss, is what pushes the characters to the edge of madness and vengeance. Review: `Revenge' filled with haunting prose 2013-01-29T21:01:05Z But the doorbell rang again, this time insistent, and I was propelled to the stairs. Meeting my husband’s killer 2014-01-21T12:45:00Z Thundercat’s insistent bass line and backing vocals add a funky jolt to the group’s “Cracker Island,” a sleek and summery jam that happens to be about … a made-up cult? Beyoncé’s Dance-Floor Salvation, and 12 More New Songs 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Platter's line is thick and insistent but wasted on empty scrawls, unremarkable shapes and puerile phrases. Marvelous or maddening? In Cameron Platter's show, it depends on which way you face 2018-06-04T04:00:00Z Written in A minor, the song begins with a catchy guitar riff that will turn out to echo the vocal melody over an insistent “four-on-the floor” bass drum from Charlie Watts. How the Rolling Stones went disco: Inside the making of “Miss You” 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Taken together, they flick at a larger story: the grueling reality behind the country’s most insistent narratives, the grinding effort just to make it. Richard Avedon’s Portraits of the American West Ride Again 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Their chunky beats, abetted by insistent dance motivators, may even prompt you to bop at your seat — if you have one. Review: Dancing With Dictators in David Byrne’s ‘Here Lies Love’ 2023-07-20T04:00:00Z Unlike Dickens, though, Mr. Miles declines to construct an elaborate plot with insistent cliffhangers and unexpected reveals — his gift as a writer is not for story but for back story. Books of The Times: ‘Want Not,’ a Novel by Jonathan Miles 2013-12-23T20:40:40Z It opens with an insistent, chiming guitar riff, before the rest of the band steps in to underpin Keene’s vocals — delivered in a voice that sounds cool and assured, while still brimming with unshakable longing. Perspective | The bittersweet brilliance of Tommy Keene 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z Thick slices of impeccable yellowfin tuna, seared and then chilled, come with an insistent lemon aïoli. Beast: restaurant review 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z Zuckerberg may not want to call this person an editor, since he has been insistent that Facebook isn’t a media company. Call it a ‘crazy idea,’ Facebook, but you need an executive editor 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z Since arriving on Bogotá’s ballroom scene in March 2020, he has been vocal about the lack of Afro-Colombian representation and insistent on respecting ballroom’s original structures, which he imbibed in New York. Ballroom Takes Root in Colombia. But Who Is It For? 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z “She was very insistent. I liked her, but I assumed it wasn’t on the table.” A Man and Woman of Letters (Many of Them) 2020-04-25T04:00:00Z Indeed, there's no getting around how white this show or its insistent colorblindness which, again, plays into a central tenet of the American story. How "Supernatural" reflects the American spirit and the monstrous darkness lurking underneath 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z It's quite endearing, this insistent modesty – but it's also, you guess, a way of taking pressure off herself for anything other than acting itself. Judi Dench: 'I never want to stop working' 2012-10-13T23:05:47Z Many of the songs are slow or medium-paced, matching eastern-edged rock against harsh, insistent vocals, and the best are both quirky and highly original. Various artists: The Sound of Siam ? review 2010-12-02T22:30:00Z |
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