But by then, the first insistent questions had begun to form.

That increasingly insistent question from out in the country would change everything.

What her mother will not satisfy, however, are Iris's ever more insistent questions, as she grows, about her origins.

"In the face of this unspeakable tragedy, they had one insistent question: How could this have happened?"

He was growing angry at her insistent questions.

The insistent question pursued him through chant and psalm.

That insight turns her insistent question into a weapon threatening everyone onstage, and everyone in the house.

Although there was something about that insistent question- Marchand winced and felt for a moment as though he were going to throw up.

A loaded, insistent question that anywhere else would have brought an angry retort from her lips.

"I thought I saw a ghost," she said in response to insistent questions.