insistent

IPA: ɪnsˈɪstʌnt

(obsolete) Standing or resting on something.
Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
(ornithology) Standing on end: specifically said of the hind toe of a bird when its base is inserted so high on the shank that only its tip touches the ground: correlated with incumbent.

Examples of "insistent" in Sentences

But Baldovino stood in front of him, his expression insistent.
Schiller: the aesthetic, in other words, is insistent from the beginning.
The BBC's response to this is that their requests to check the footage were not 'insistent' enough
No guitars to hold it together, no massive keyboard riffs, just these thin insistent pulses with flurries of sound on the sides.
The hostile Cylon, who remain insistent on pressing the attack against the Colonials, have lost their most important strategic asset as a result.
"insistent" that the products be manufactured by Standard Candy according to the new formula, and agreed to take the risk of negative outcomes, says the suit.
Sometimes Hofmann seems to nudge Roth in a direction in which Roth is not actually going: the pressure of a man's fingers on a girl's arm is "insistent" when in the original it is merely soft.
These were the Marshall Plan days, which sadly ended in the '70s, and the US became even more kind of insistent on pushing these wrong policies on the developing countries and some other countries.