Word: insisted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...instances like Sarah’s, we justify accepting a friend we can’t stand with social etiquette. We insist it’s rude to reject someone. This person has taken the time to invite us as a friendster, and it is common courtesy to accept. Besides, what is so bad about having someone’s picture linked to your profile on a silly website that people visit when mindlessly procrasterbating...
Still, if companies want to sell even more masks, lanterns, witch hats and the like, good luck to them. It's the gullible consumers who fall for the pitch whom I detest--the employees who insist on decorating sensible cubicles with orange and black streamers and littering the office with bowls of candy, the folk who dress up and throw pumpkin parties at country clubs, the hundreds of thousands who will come to work next week in costume. Chris Riddle is the Halloween trend spotter at card-and-decorations giant American Greetings, which estimates that 25% of the American work...
...This is the Namu familiar to many Chinese, a crass celebrity famous for her fame. Her self-promotion so irks her own people in their remote homeland at the foot of the Tibetan plateau that many insist she is not Mosuo at all, just a mixed-blood descendant of 13th century Mongolian invaders dispatched by Kublai Khan...
...dormitory at his high school and assumed all the responsibilities of living on his own, without any parental support. Throughout high school, he excelled in physics and astronomy, winning scores of first-place awards and recognition within Macedonia’s physics community. But Veljkovic is quick to insist that his past success may not translate to his new life at Harvard. “Even though I was one of the best physics students in Macedonia, I am just a small boy here—nothing more,” he says...
...those who still insist that their cable problem is under control, who complain of their need to watch this or that show, who rail in favor of personal liberty and free choice—well, there’s always the junior common rooms. You’ll have time to recover from the exertion of walking thither as you sink into cable-induced Nirvana...